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Jimmys Hall

In 1930s Ireland, political activist Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) faces deportation for running a community hall for the arts, enabling the villagers to gather to sing, dance, paint, study or box, which led to his deportation.
Keywords:  #Aileen Henry #Barry Ward #Francis Magee #Jimmys Hall #Ken Loach
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Globe and Mail
July 17, 2015
As dramatically stilted as Jimmy's Hall is, it has an undeniably appealing integrity ...
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SF Weekly
December 31, 2015
Even an ultimately forgettable effort from this esteemed social-realist director can't help but achieve eloquence in its affirmation of basic human decency.
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New Zealand Herald
May 16, 2016
A handsomely mounted, yet modest and precise piece of work that unearths a little-known true story of injustice and reminds us all of how the present is always in the shadow of the past.
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Seattle Times
August 06, 2015
Loach is clearly on Gralton's side, but he's remarkably evenhanded about it. Norton is a formidable villain, while Ward is just vulnerable enough to make the showdown dramatically persuasive.
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
January 09, 2016
... a soft-focus, minor film. It's not bad, but it could have been better. Hence the heartbreak.
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Movie Talk
September 10, 2016
Barry Ward's handsome, charismatic hero is a romanticised figure (in reality Gralton was middle-aged and balding), which wouldn't matter if his character had been given more depth and shade.
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Jerusalem Post
March 22, 2016
It's mildly entertaining but suffers from the one problem common to all these movies -- that the enemy is so vile, there is little shading.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
July 16, 2015
There's humanity here, on all sides, and a gentle wisdom beneath the raging rhetoric.
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Associated Press
July 16, 2015
While this deeply romanticized and fictionalized account of a little-known underdog might not serve you in any trivia capacities, it's also a worthy and loving story of humanity in the face of oppression.
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South China Morning Post
April 06, 2016
This 1930s-set drama chronicling events leading to the deportation of a little-known, real-life Irish political activist is a graceful digest of Loach's signature motifs.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 19, 2015
Working from a fact-based screenplay by his longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, Loach addresses a theme that resonates throughout his work: the effect of the political on the personal.
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