15 August 1998: the Real IRA exploded a bomb on a crowded street in Omagh Read More »
Tag Archives: Brenda Fricker
A Man Of No Importance (1994) Suri Krishnamma, Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. Read More »
Conspiracy of Silence (2003) John Deery, Jonathan Forbes, Brenda Fricker, Niall O’Brien
A can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church following two controversial incidents Read More »
Utz (1992) George Sluizer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Drama
Fisher, a fine art dealer, goes to Prague after the death of a friend, the Baron von Utz, to see if he can obtain some of the pieces of the Baron’s priceless Meissen porcelain collection. Read More »
My Left Foot (1989) Jim Sheridan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Biography, Drama
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to write with.
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Resurrection Man (1998) Marc Evans, David Williamson, Stuart Townsend, Brenda Fricker, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.
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