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Jimmy's Hall
Directed by
Ken Loach
PG-13
2014
1h 46m
Drama
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History
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6.7
77%
61%
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During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.
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Cast of Jimmy's Hall
Barry Ward
James Gralton
Simone Kirby
Oonagh
Jim Norton
Father Sheridan
Andrew Scott
Father Seamus
Brían F. O'Byrne
Commander O'Keefe
Francis Magee
Mossie
Karl Geary
Seán
Shane Cullen
Guard
Sean Fox
Sorcha Fox
Molly
Aisling Franciosi
Marie
Denise Gough
Tess
Aileen Henry
Alice
Seamus Hughes
Ruairí
Martin Lucey
Dessie
Chris MacManus
Taighe
Mikel Murfi
Tommy
Shane O'Brien
Finn
John O'Dowd
Higgins
Donal O'Kelly
Cian
Rebecca O'Mara
Mrs. O'Keefe
Seán T. Ó Meallaigh
Journalist
Stella McGirl
Stella
John Cronogue
Séamus Clarke
Michael Sheridan
Fintan
Diane Parkes
Mossie's Wife
Padraig Fallon
Roscommon IRA
Anna Crossley
Young Dancer
Róisín Judge
Young Violinist
John McCarrick
Mayor
Hugh Gallagher
Senior Guard
Colm Gormley
Guard
John Colleary
Guard
Joe Lafferty
Guard
Tom Colsh
Guard
Conor McDermottroe
Doherty
Jimmy's Hall Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
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.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
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.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
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.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
There's humanity here, on all sides, and a gentle wisdom beneath the raging rhetoric.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
In many ways, "Jimmy's Hall" shows what the pursuit of happiness can look like, and why it's worth a revolution to protect it.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
While it may not represent entirely accurate history, it depicts a set of values and actions the filmmaker clearly holds dear, and does so with commendable engagement.
New York Daily News
Graham Fuller
With "Jimmy's Hall," Ken Loach creates a quiet but compelling drama about a real-life story.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Footloose set in 1930s Ireland, basically, with jazz in lieu of Kenny Loggins.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
There's an essential kindness about "Jimmy's Hall," so it's no surprise that it wrings real hope from a downbeat conclusion.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
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.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
The portrait of Gralton and his comrades is so rich and heartfelt that one might easily overlook all the moralizing.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
This isn't a nuanced, sober work. It's a film that stacks the deck ideologically, but does so with such energy and freewheeling charm that you roll with it.
The New Republic
Elaine Teng
By trying to give Jimmy's Hall the gravitas of a national struggle, Loach obscures his story. Elegant but uneven, Jimmy's Hall becomes one history lesson too much.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
One of the pleasures of "Jimmy's Hall," a likable period piece directed by the social-realist British filmmaker Ken Loach, is its unswerving belief in old-fashioned populist heroes.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
[A] charming but surprisingly soft-focus movie ...
Village Voice
Marsha McCreadie
Like the shot of folks on bicycles pedaling away in support of their folk hero Jimmy at the film's conclusion, it's real populism at work.
The Hollywood Reporter
Neil Young
What we're left with is an odd, only fitfully engaging hybrid of The Quiet Man and Footloose, which neither packs much of a punch nor is particularly nimble on its feet.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Ken Loach's staging is so calm and sober that it turns his story into an expertly photographed yet weirdly remote rebellion tale.
Variety
Scott Foundas
Ken Loach has taken a despicable episode of modern Irish history -- the 1933 deportation without trial of one of its own citizens, James Gralton -- and made a surprisingly lovely, heartfelt film from it with Jimmy's Hall.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
No matter how much we may agree with the underlying argument, this is paint-by-numbers political filmmaking, and Loach is better than that
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