6 Movies Directed by Pat O'Connor

Cal

Cal

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-08-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1068 Reviews)

Director:

Pat O'Connor

Cast:

Writer:

Bernard MacLaverty (novel)

Bernard MacLaverty (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

A Month in the Country

A Month in the Country

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-02-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (894 Reviews)

Director:

Pat O'Connor

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

J.L. Carr (novel)

Simon Gray

Fullplot:

Five centuries ago a mural was created in a country church in the north of England and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Rev. Mr. Keach tells WWI veteran Tom Birken who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken's bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier?

Stars and Bars

Stars and Bars

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-03-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.7 (660 Reviews)

Director:

Pat O'Connor

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

William Boyd (novel)

William Boyd (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process.

Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-04-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland, USA, UK

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (6866 Reviews)

Director:

Pat O'Connor

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Andrew Davies (screenplay)

Maeve Binchy (novel)

Fullplot:

'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve reunite with their childhood friend, the ice-cool Nan Mahon, the 'college belle'. They also encounter the handsome and charming Jack Foley, whom Benny quickly falls for.

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-11-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland, UK, USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2694 Reviews)

Director:

Pat O'Connor

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Brian Friel (play)

Frank McGuinness (screenplay)

William Butler Yeats (poem)

Fullplot:

A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930's Ireland. Each of the five women, different from the other in temperament and capability, is the emotional support system, although at times reluctantly, for each other, with the eldest assuming the role of a 'somewhat meddling' overseer. But then into this comes an elderly brother, a priest too senile to perform his clerical functions, who has "come home to die" after a lifetime in Africa; as well, there also arrives the boy's father, riding up on a motorcycle, only to announce that he's on his way to Spain to fight against Franco. Nevertheless, life goes on for the five sisters, although undeniably affected by the presence of the two men, they continue to cope as a close-knit unit... until something happens that disrupts the very fabric of that cohesiveness beyond repair.

Sweet November

Sweet November

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-02-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (65650 Reviews)

Director:

Pat O'Connor

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Herman Raucher

Paul Yurick (story)

Kurt Voelker (story)

Kurt Voelker (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.

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