An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

• DirectorAlan Parker
• Release25 December 1999
• GenreDrama
• Duration2h 25m
• Budget$50,000,000
• Revenue$13,042,112
• Rate
  

  7.296
  333 reviews
• Productions

  Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, David Brown Productions, Dirty Hands Productions, Scott Rudin Productions