See it at the Movies

BROOKLYN

By Joyce and Don Fowler
Posted 12/3/15

* * * * ½ Don

* * * * * Joyce

(Beautiful story of love and immigration)

The appreciative audience at the Avon cheered at the end of this beautiful little movie about an Irish immigrant who …

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See it at the Movies

BROOKLYN

Posted

* * * * ½ Don

* * * * * Joyce

(Beautiful story of love and immigration)

The appreciative audience at the Avon cheered at the end of this beautiful little movie about an Irish immigrant who falls in love with an Italian boy, returns to her small village in Ireland for a family funeral and is lured to remain in her homeland.

“Brooklyn” is a story about making choices. And sometimes they are difficult, and there may be no right or wrong ones.

Saoirse Ronan is wonderful as the plain Irish lass, Ellis Lacey, who leaves her homeland for a chance to improve her life in Brooklyn in the early ’50s. “Brooklyn” is a great period piece, depicting life during that transitional era, where ethnic groups largely stayed to themselves. Ellis has her doubts about her decision. Life is hard as is making friends and missing her family and friends back home…until she meets a rough-around-the-edges Italian plumber and slowly falls in love.

But then a death in the family brings her back to Ireland for the funeral and her best friend’s wedding. Her mother and friends work overtime to make her stay, fixing her up with a local boy, offering her a “position” in a local business, and playing on her roots.

But Ellis has an even stronger reason to return to America and must make a difficult choice. There’s an interesting twist at the end that we wouldn’t dare reveal.

Women may have to work hard at bringing their spouses and dates to this one, but they should persist. If their man has any feelings at all, they will feel for these beautiful characters.

Rated PG-13, with nothing to worry about.

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