Dancing at Lughnasa

The lives of five repressed, unmarried Irish sisters (Meryl Streep, Catherine McCormack, Brid Brennan, Sophie Thompson, and Kathy Burke), who are raising a young child (Darrell Johnston), in 1936 are irrevocably changed by the return of their mentally changed, older priest brother (Michael Gambon) from Uganda, by the loss of employment, and by the arrival of the free-spirited, estranged father (Rhys Ifans) who has returned to Donegal to see his son before heading to Spain to fight for Franco in this compelling, well-acted, tension-filled 1998 film.
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