A Capra-esque tale of whimsy leavened with wrenching drama and heartfelt sentiment, Irish born director Jim Sheridan’s In America, a multiple Academy Award nominee, is sure to move any audience to tears by movie’s end.
A 2003 critics’ favourite, this semi-autobiographical immigrant story of lives lived on the knife edge of hope, poverty and despair tracks the arrival of the director’s family into America in the early 1980s, in a story that would pierce the defenses of all but the most dogmatically cynical viewers.
Another must-see film to catch prior to Oscar night, February 29th.
