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Title: Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004)
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| Steven Robertson | ... | Michael Connolly | |
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Alan King | ... | Tommy |
| Brenda Fricker | ... | Eileen | |
| Ruth McCabe | ... | Annie | |
| James McAvoy | ... | Rory O'Shea | |
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Anna Healy | ... | Alice |
| Tom Hickey | ... | Con O'Shea | |
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Sarah Jane Drummey | ... | Girl in Pub |
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Rachel Hanna | ... | Girl in Pub |
| Emmet Kirwan | ... | Angry Man | |
| Romola Garai | ... | Siobhan | |
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Pat Shortt | ... | Nightclub Doorman |
| Stanley Townsend | ... | Interview Panelist | |
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Derbhle Crotty | ... | Interview Panelist |
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Donal Toolan | ... | Interview Panelist |
In Dublin, the crippled rebel Rory O'Shea moves to the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, affecting the lives of the residents. Rory is able to understand the unintelligible speech of Michael Connolly, who was left in the shelter by his prominent father many years ago due to his cerebral palsy, and they become close friends. Rory convinces Michael to move from Carrigmore to an apartment in Dublin, and they hire the gorgeous Siobhan to assist them. Living together with Rory, Michael faces a new world, finding friendship, love and freedom and learning to survive by his own. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I just witnessed a movie that by all rights should have been fodder for a second rate MOW on Lifetime...but trust the Irish to keep it from being anything but saccharine. The set-up all but SCREAMS "Here's a message concerning what's TRULY important in life" but the execution was way into the "Let's see just what we can get away with, here."
It helps to have two fantastic actors in the leads -- James McAvoy (as Rory) and Stephen Robertson (as Michael). While Rory is offered up as the near saintly one -- never mind the language and attitude, he's the "life force" in this piece and could easily have been insufferable in his ultimately "caring" attitude -- McAvoy keeps him sharp enough to keep him from being too sweet. But the revelation is Stephen Robertson as Michael. Not since Leonardo Di Caprio in "...Gilbert Grape" has anyone so perfectly captured a person with an affliction that I began to believe he really was an actor with cerebral palsy. And his eyes...my God, he can rip you apart with them.
This movie is, to paraphrase Rory, f****n' amazing. Go see it. Take a box of Kleenex and enjoy every well-earned tear...and laugh.