Set in 1957, this romantic coming-of-age story follows three childhood friends from a small town in Ireland as they head to Dublin to attend Trinity College. Nan (Saffron Burrows), a year older than her friends and already in her second year at Trinity, is ambitious, romantic, and just a bit ...more
MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 1995 | Running Time: 96 minutes
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The epic romance that is made of this slight drama set in the Ireland of the 1950s results in a somewhat overblown film that is redeemed by the star-making performances of its lead actress and a pair of supporting players. Minnie Driver, who gained 30 pounds to play the role of Benny Hogan, shines in the role of a lifetime, where she is required to play exuberant, crushed, righteously indignant, naïve, determined, and heartbroken in the course of a script that gives new meaning to the term ...more
- Chris O'Donnell - Jack Foley
- Minnie Driver - Bernadette "Benny"
- Geraldine O'Rawe - Eve
- Saffron Burrows - Nan
- Alan Cumming - Sean
- Marie Conmee - Mrs Healey
- Pauline Delaney - Big House Maid
- Tony Doyle - Dr. Foley
- Tom Hickey - Professor Maclure
- John Kavanagh - Brian Mahon
- Ruth McCabe - Emily Mahon
- Britta Smith - Mrs Hogan
- Aidan Gillen - Aidan
- Jason Barry - Nasey Mahon
- Pat O'Connor - Director
- Terence A. Clegg - Executive Producer
- Alex Winitsky - Producer
- Arlene Sellers - Producer
- Frank Price - Producer
- Andrew Davies - Screenwriter
- Maeve Binchy - Book Author
- Chris Seagers - Art Director
- Mary Selway - Casting
- Simone Ireland - Casting
- Kenith Trodd - Co-producer
- Anushia Nieradzik - Costume Designer
- John Jympson - Editor
- Michael Kamen - Composer (Music Score)











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