Jimmy's Hall
(2014)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 210 votes
Year: 2014
Runtime: 109 мин
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Барри Уорд, Симона Кирби, Джим Нортон, Эндрю Скотт, Брайан Ф. О'Бирн, Фрэнсис Маги, Karl Geary, Shane Cullen, Sean Fox, Sorcha Fox
Plot
In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and he seeks to reopen the dance hall that led to his deportation.
1932. Jimmy Gralton is back home in the Irish countryside after ten years of forced exile in the USA. His widowed mother Alice is happy, Jimmy's friends are happy, all the young people who enjoy dancing and singing are happy. Which is not the case of Father Sheridan, the local priest, nor of the village squire, nor of Dennis O'Keefe, the chief of the fascists. The reason is simple: Jimmy is a socialist activist. So when the "intruder" reopens the village hall, thus enabling the villagers to gather to sing, dance, paint, study or box, they take a dim view of the whole thing. People who think and unite are difficult to manipulate, aren't they? From that moment on they will use every means possible to get rid of Jimmy and his "dangerous" hall.