01/04/2014 - Cast headed by Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters

Director John Crowley (Closed Circuit [+see also:
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Set in the early 1950s, Brooklyn is the story of a young woman who moves from small-town Ireland to Brooklyn, New York, where, unlike home, she has the opportunity for work and for a future - and love, in the shape of an Italian-American. When a family tragedy brings her back to Ireland, she finds herself absorbed into her old community, but now with an eligible bachelor courting her.  As she repeatedly postpones her return to America, she finds herself confronting a dilemma - a choice between two men and two countries.

Saoirse Ronan (The Grand Budapest Hotel [+see also:
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Producers are Finola Dwyer (An Education) and Amanda Posey (Quartet [+see also:
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The film is a BBC Films, Telefilm Canada, Ingenious, the Irish Film Board, British Film Institute and SODEC (Canada) presentation of a Wildgaze Films (UK), Finola Dwyer Productions (UK), Parallel Films (Ireland) and Item 7 (Canada) co-production.  Hanway Films are handling international sales, and Lionsgate will release in the UK and Mongrel in Canada.