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Brooklyn Plot

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Brooklyn is a drama, romance movie starring Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen and Jim Broadbent. It is directed by John Crowley.

Box Office

Budget : $11 mn
Box Office : $62.1 mn

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  • BROOKLYN Official HD Trailer
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  • 5/5
By MovieMavenGal

Brooklyn was one of my favorite films of the Sundance film festival. Nick Hornby (About a Boy, An Education) adapted the book for the screen, and I especially loved some very sharply written funny dialogue -- the boarding house dinners were an absolute stitch.

Saorise (which we learned is pronounce Ser-shay) Ronan stars as Elis, a young woman with little prospects in her town in Ireland in 1951. Her older sister has arranged through a priest in Brooklyn for her to immigrate with a job already waiting for her. She has a difficult crossing, and is taken under the wing of her roommate who has just been returning to Ireland for a family visit.

Elis lives in a boarding house with several...

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