This Is My Father

This Is My Father

This Is My Father is a 1998 Irish-American film directed by Paul Quinn.

Plot

This film tells of a tragic love story in late 1930s Ireland between Fiona Flynn, a beautiful feisty 17 year old from a middle class family played by Moya Farrelly and Kieran O'Dea, a shy labourer in his early 30s played by Aidan Quinn and the search by their son Kieran Johnson played by James Caan to find his roots in late 90s Ireland.

The film is told as an interleaving of the 1990s setting where Kieran is hearing the story of his parents and the events of the 1930s. The son did not know of his parents story and the tragic events that cause his mother to leave Ireland on her own while pregnant.

It is a moving story highlighting issues of prejudice and social conservatism in rural Ireland of the 1930s.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120865/ This Is My Father] at the Internet Movie Database


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