Recorded/Estimated Wordwide Gross

$2.89 / $3.03

US Actual: $1.37 / 45.1%

Intl Est.: $1.67 / 54.9%

Recorded/Estimated Admissions Wordwide

0.4M / 0.6M

US Actual: 0.22 / 39.8%

Intl. Est: 0.33 / 60.2%

Worldwide Release History

520 Days / 469 Theaters*

Average Gross/Week: 241,078

First Released: 12/13/02 Last Seen: 05/16/04

* as many as, tracking

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Synopsis: Ireland, 1953. When Desmond Doyle's philandering wife, Charlotte, deserts her family on the day after Christmas, her abrasive mother reports the abandonment and Desmond's unemployment to the authorities. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide that a 1941 law mandates that the three Doyle children, nine year old Evelyn and her two younger brothers, Maurice and Dermot, be put into church-run orphanages. During that time Evelyn and her brothers suffer the trauma of separation forced on them by an abusive system. Desmond attempts to retrieve the children with the help of feisty barmaid, Bernadette Beattie and her solicitor brother Michael. When the Church and courts refuse to give the children back, a visiting Irish born lawyer from America, Nick Barron, agrees to help with the case. Nick drafts his old mentor, Thomas Connolly, a famously colorful retired barrister who relishes the idea of taking on his old foes on the Irish High court. Nick also recruits a popular radio broadcaster to take up the cause, bringing public sympathy to Desmond's plight. Against all odds, but with the support and encouragement of his fellow countrymen as well as people around the world, Desmond and his legal team do what has never been done before - challenge the constitutionality of a law before the Irish Supreme Court. No one is spared, including little Evelyn, in a final attempt to reverse Ireland's Family Law and reunite a father with his children.

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• New York Post (Jonathan Foreman) [2.5/4]
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• The New York Times
• Toronto Life [2.5/4]
• Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)