A Love Divided

Released May 14, 1999

1 hr. 38 min.

Drama

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53%

19 Reviews

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73%

500+ Ratings

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The marriage of a Catholic and a Protestant in 1950s Ireland survives in spite of fierce resistance from villagers.

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A pretty decent movie and really sad in parts since its based on real events. A really moving film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

A pretty decent movie and really sad in parts since its based on real events. A really moving film.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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... simple story that tells of the divide between different faiths that can exist even within a culture. It was actually rather scary to see neighbours turn into enemies, blinded by a misguided sense of righteousness and conforming to societal pressure - the heard mentality, bitterness and blind violence that had lost touch with reason... made me question how close we can cut and how uncomfortable we can all get when we scratch on society's thin veneer of racial & religious tolerance...

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

Very good..based on a true story about the control that a Catholic church tried to put on a small town...and sadly succeeded in some ways.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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It's like a PBS version of a movie of the week about child abduction, complete with histrionic, spit-flecked speechifying in quaint Irish brogues.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Really well told TRUE story of Ireland in 1957... and a great soundtrack with the amazing song "Ae Fond Kiss" by Rabbie Burns

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Sydney Macartney

Director

Nicole Bohan

Mary Cloney

Melissa Bolger

Rebecca Auld

Sarah Bolger

Eileen Cloney

Orla Brady

Sheila Kelly Cloney

Peter Caffrey

Andy Bailey

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Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle

Rated: 1.5/5

Mar 10, 2003

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

An Irish drama that's a lot more sly and a lot less straightforward than it appears on the surface.

Rated: 3/4

Dec 14, 2001

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Terry Lawson

Detroit Free Press

Powerful indictment of the lengths human beings will go to to be right.

Nov 30, 2001

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Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 2/5

Oct 28, 2005

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

San Francisco Examiner

A tug-at-your-heartstrings weepie from the sledgehammer school of filmmaking.

Dec 14, 2001

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Luke Y. Thompson

New Times

Overplays its hand, with far too much melodramatic shouting from leads Liam Cunningham and Orla Brady.

Aug 23, 2001

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Synopsis

The marriage of a Catholic and a Protestant in 1950s Ireland survives in spite of fierce resistance from villagers.

Director: Sydney Macartney
Executive Producer: David Blake Knox, Barbara McKissack, Rod Stoneman
Screenwriter: Deirdre Dowling
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Production Co: BBC, Raidio Teilifis Eireann, Parallel Film Productions Ltd.
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 14, 1999, Original
Sound Mix: Stereo