Jimmy's Hall2015
Jimmy's Hall (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Benefiting from a talented cast and sensitive work from director Ken Loach, Jimmy's Hall offers period drama rich with relevant sociopolitical themes.
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Cast
as James Gralton, Jimmy
as Oonagh
as Father Sheridan, Père Sheridan
as Père Seamus, Father Seamus
as O'Keefe, Commander O'Keefe
as Mossie

as Alice

as Stella

as Molly

as Dessie
as Tommy

as Finn
as Tess
as Marie

as Journalist
as Sean

as Doherty

as Seamus Clarke

as Fintan

as Ruari

as Mrs. O'Keefe

as Roscommon IRA

as Steward

as Mossie's Wife

as Roscommon IRA

as Roscommon IRA

as Young Dancer

as Young Violinist

as Mayor

as Senior Guard

as Guard

as Guard

as Guard

as Guard
as Journalist

as Guard
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Critic Reviews for Jimmy's Hall
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Working from a fact-based screenplay by his longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, Loach addresses a theme that resonates throughout his work: the effect of the political on the personal.

Loach is clearly on Gralton's side, but he's remarkably evenhanded about it. Norton is a formidable villain, while Ward is just vulnerable enough to make the showdown dramatically persuasive.

If you ever thought Footloose might've been improved with an Irish brogue and a short pour of agitprop, then by all means look to this latest from Ken Loach, Britain's elder statesman of cinema and its evergreen champion of the working class.

As dramatically stilted as Jimmy's Hall is, it has an undeniably appealing integrity ...
There's humanity here, on all sides, and a gentle wisdom beneath the raging rhetoric.
While this deeply romanticized and fictionalized account of a little-known underdog might not serve you in any trivia capacities, it's also a worthy and loving story of humanity in the face of oppression.
Audience Reviews for Jimmy's Hall
Ken Loach and socialism go together like hot crumpets and butter, nonetheless it's a very okay film.
Super Reviewer
I hope this is not Loach's final film as it has been rumored, a solid drama that takes the easy way but shows in an honest manner how in all times religion has been a hindrance to knowledge and pleasure, as embodied here by Jim Norton in a strong, nuanced performance.
Super Reviewer
In "Jimmy's Hall," James Gralton(Barry Ward) has been living for the previous ten years in New York but not by choice. With the change of government in his native Ireland, he feels it is the right time to return. Even though it is Oonagh(Simone Kirby) who misses him the most, the central question most of the people have is whether or not he will reopen his hall. With "Jimmy's Hall," writer Paul Laverty and director Ken Loach tell a true story in engaging fashion about an incident which might at first seem truly inconsequential. However, in fact, one can see the true beginnings of Irish democracy on a grass roots level, as this is the first time that cracks are showing in the stone edifice of the Catholic Church with the people beginning to take control of their education and entertainment.(It does not hurt that Jimmy is willing to speak directly to Church representatives and ask questions.) Looking down the road, there is also the sense of how one generation inspires another which leads eventually to the landmark vote for same sex marriage in Ireland.

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