In America

After chronicling various chapters of Irish history in such films as In the Name of the Father and The Field, writer/director Jim Sheridan turns his lens upon his own family's experiences immigrating to the United States in the aptly titled In America. The loosely autobiographical script centers on ...more

Over the course of four unflinching portraits of stubborn, headstrong Irish antiheroes -- My Left Foot, The Field, In the Name of the Father, and The Boxer -- no one could ever accuse writer/director Jim Sheridan of viewing the past through rose-colored glasses. That is, until In America, the filmmaker's effective but sentimental account of one family's not-so-legal immigration to New York City. No matter how many incidents in Sheridan's semi-autobiographical script are purportedly true-to-life, ...more