The read
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
Colmán Sharkey - a fisherman, a father, a husband - takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irishmen.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 30 points higher than audiences do.
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Tomás Ó SúilleabháinDirector
- Tomás Ó SúilleabháinWriter
- KilaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Dónall Ó HéalaiColeman Sharkey
- Saise QuinnKitty
- Dara DevaneyPatsy
- Eoin O'DubhghaillSeán
- Dudura O'GionnáinDónal
- Michael O'ChonfhlaolaPJ
- Siobhán O'KellyÁine
- Eimear Ní MháilleMary
- Seán T. Ó MeallaighSéamus
- Conal O'CéidighDan
- Michael McElhattonLieutenant
- Elaine O'DwyerMargaret
Stills
Themes
irish great potato famine (1845-52)