Da 1988  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Matt Clark
Cast: Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, William Hickey, Karl Hayden, Doreen Hepburn, Hugh O'Conor, Ingrid Craigie, Joan O'Hara, Frank(2) McDonald
When an Irish-American playwright returns to Ireland to attend his father's funeral, he is confronted by his father's ghost and memories of himself as a young lad. This film is sentimental but enjoyable fare.
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The Dawning 1988  PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Knights
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Tara MacGowran, Hugh Grant, Ronnie Masterson, John Rogan, Joan O'Hara, Charmian May, Ann Way, Mark O'Regan
Life is good for young Nancy Gulliver (Rebecca Pidgeon) in 1920s Ireland, except for the crush on staid Harry (Hugh Grant) who, in turn, loves another. Things change for Nancy when an Irish rebel terrorist (Anthony Hopkins) shows up at her beach house, and she becomes involved in Irish activism against the British. The good cast includes Trevor Howard (in his last film) as Nancy's grandfather and Jean Simmons as her aunt.
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Langrishe Go Down 1978 TV, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Hugh Jones
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Judi Dench, Annette Crosbie, Susan Williamson, Harold Pinter, Joan O'Hara, Margaret Whiting
This made-for-TV drama was broadcast in the U.K. in 1978. The story revolves around three unmarried sisters–Imogen (Judi Dench), Helen (Annette Crosbie), and Lily (Susan Williamson)–who live in an old mansion in Ireland. To make ends meet, Imogen had rented out part of the house to graduate student Otto (Jeremy Irons), and a love affair between Imogen and Otto bloomed, then failed. The sisters have been nursing grudges against each other ever since.
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| 1. Da (1988)
2. The Dawning (1988)
3. Langrishe Go Down (1978)
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