Janice Beard: 45 WPM 1999  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clare Kilner
Cast: Eileen Walsh, Patsy Kensit, Rhys Ifans, Sandra Voe, David O'Hara, Frances Gray, Zita Sattar, Amelia Curtis, Mossie Smith, Sarah McVicar
Janice Beard (Eileen Walsh) has used her active imagination to dream up tall tales, which she hoped would lure her agoraphobic mother (Sandra Voe) to venture outside their home. That ploy failed, and now Janice has moved out and found a job with an auto motor firm where her stories may again be employed to ward off an espionage crisis at work.
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 The Magdalene Sisters 2002  R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Mullan
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Britta Smith, Frances Healy, Eithne McGuinness, Phyllis McMahon, Eamonn Owens, Rebecca Walsh
This story, set in Ireland during the 1960s, involves four women who are tortured and humiliated by merciless nuns after their families shipped them off to the Magdalene laundry house where they are supposed to undergo rehabilitation.
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Miss Julie 1999 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Tam Dean Burn, Heathcote Williams, Eileen Walsh, Sue Maund, Joanna Page, Andrea Ollson, Sara Li Gustafsson, Bill Ellis, Duncan MacAskill
Based on Swedish playwright August Strindberg's 1889 play, Mike Figgis' adaptation has Saffron Burrows in the role of Miss Julie who flirts and torments the servants. Peter Mullan takes on the role of Jean, the servant who plans to rise above his station using Miss Julie as part of his game plan. But, all is lost when Jean's lover, Christine (Maria Doyle Kennedy), catches on, and her jealousy leads to Miss Julie's ultimate destruction.
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When Brendan Met Trudy 2000 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
Cast: Peter McDonald, Flora Montgomery, Marie Mullen, Pauline McLynn, Don Wycherley, Maynard Eziashi, Eileen Walsh, Barry Cassin, Niall O'Brien, Rynagh O'Grady
Brendan (Peter McDonald), an introverted schoolteacher, finds a breath of fresh air in his new love, Trudy (Flora Montgomery)–until he discovers that Trudy sneaks out at night. Brendan suspects Trudy of being a terrorist and is somewhat relieved when he uncovers the fact that she is only a thief.
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| 1. Janice Beard: 45 WPM (1999)
2. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
3. Miss Julie (1999)
4. When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
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