2 Movies Starring Niamh Cusack

The Closer You Get

The Closer You Get

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-09-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Ireland

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (1217 Reviews)

Director:

Aileen Ritchie

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Herbie Wave (story)

William Ivory (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?

Five Minutes of Heaven

Five Minutes of Heaven

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-02-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Ireland

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (10201 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

In February, 1975, in Northern Ireland, seventeen year-old UVF member Alistair Little kills the catholic Jimmy Griffin in his house in Lurgan in front of his younger brother Joe Griffin. Alistair is arrested and imprisoned for twelve years while Joe is blamed by his mother for not saving his brother. Thirty-three years later, a TV promotes the meeting of Alistair and Joe in a house in River Finn, expecting the truth and the reconciliation of the murderer and the victim who actually seeks five minutes of heaven.

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