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SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE

  • 2024
  • 1 HR, 37 min
  • DEC 13 → DEC 19
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Released November 8, 2024, Ireland
Drama
1 hour, 37 minutes
Lionsgate / Roadside Attractions
None
Starring
  • Cillian Murphy
  • Eileen Furlong
  • Michelle Fairley
  • Clare Dunne
  • Helen Behan
  • Emily Watson
  • Mark McKenna
  • Amy De Bhrún
Director

Tim Mielants

Film Information

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries — horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform “fallen young women.” Adapted from the Booker Prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan.

Film Stills

Full Cast
Cillian Murphy
Eileen Furlong
Michelle Fairley
Clare Dunne
Helen Behan
Emily Watson
Mark McKenna
Amy De Bhrún
Additional Credits
Tim Mielants Director
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Reviews

“A deliberate film that uses small moments to examine one of the great questions of our time: how good people let bad things happen, and how we might push back against the dark.”

Helen O’Hara
Empire Magazine

“SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, to paraphrase Walt Whitman, contains multitudes. A deep-dive character study anchored by Cillian Murphy’s fiercely internalised performance, Tim Mielant’s film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland.”

Tara Brady
Irish Times

“[Murphy’s] is a marvel of a performance, extremely expressive and yet deeply inward looking. When the depths are stirred, you can’t see the bottom.”

Sheila O’Malley
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