Small Things Like These
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Tim Mielants Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 2024
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, Zara Devlin
Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film reveals truths about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries — horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform “fallen young women.” Adapted from the Booker Prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan.
What the critics are saying:
“It is Murphy’s sensitive and impeccable performance and Bill’s weathered countenance and those small yet significant gestures that make “Small Things Like These” such a quietly major film about extending a helping hand for those in need.”
Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News
“With Cillian Murphy’s quiet, almost small and yet grand performance carrying the story every step of the way, “Small Things Like These” is quite possibly the best movie I’ve seen so far this year”
Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times
“I was so rapt, so caught up in this film, that I wasn’t aware that it was going to be the ending until the screen faded to black. It is an absorbing, committed drama.”
Peter Bradshaw Guardian