- Status: Completed
- Score: 6.7/10
- Director: Ken Loach
- Country: UKIrelandFranceBelgiumJapan
- Year: 2014
- Duration: 109 min
- Genres: Biography,Drama,History,
- Production:
During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.
1932. Jimmy Gralton is back home in the Irish countryside after ten years of forced exile in the USA. His widowed mother Alice is happy, Jimmy’s friends are happy, all the young people who enjoy dancing and singing are happy. Which is not the case of Father Sheridan, the local priest, nor of the village squire, nor of Dennis O’Keefe, the chief of the fascists. The reason is simple: Jimmy is a socialist activist. So when the “intruder” reopens the village hall, thus enabling the villagers to gather to sing, dance, paint, study or box, they take a dim view of the whole thing. People who think and unite are difficult to manipulate, aren’t they? From that moment on they will use every means possible to get rid of Jimmy and his “dangerous” hall.
Barry Ward, Aileen Henry, Stella McGirl, Martin Lucey, Shane O'Brien, Jim Norton, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Brían F. O'Byrne, Francis Magee, Simone Kirby, Sorcha Fox, Mikel Murfi, Denise Gough, Aisling Franciosi, Karl Geary,
