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Rating: Q=6, P=5 / Average OJ
Scale 1=3, Scale 2=3, Scale 3=3, Scale 4=2
1960's, Northern Ireland, Politics, Coming of Age, Memoir
What a beautiful memoir from Kenneth Brannagh. This is a film about childhood, about family, about the importance of place impacting your identity. It is also a film about violence and trauma and grappling with the hardest decision: stay in the place you know and love or be safe. I also loved how Brannagh showed the escape of the movie theater and how much those themes and stories of westerns stayed in the young Buddy's mind. Wonderful performances by Judi Dench and newcomer Jude Hill.
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