Plot: Based on a novel by Colm Tóibín, Eilis Lacey leaves small town Ireland for a better life in New York, arranged by an Irish priest in Brooklyn. Working in a shop she takes a bookkeeping course and participates in the Irish community. There she meets an Italian, and falls in love. They marry but she wants to see her mother after the death of her sister in Ireland. Returning home, she falls into the life of the small town, meets a local guy, but also a nasty neighbor who knows she was married in the US.
Trivia:
• Rooney Mara was originally cast in the lead role. However, her eventual replacement, Saoirse Ronan, was a front-runner for the part since the film began development, but she was too young to portray Eilis. The production was stalled for years, Mara backed out and when the project was ready to resume, Ronan had aged properly to fit the character and won the part.
• The city of Brooklyn in the film was actually shot in Montreal for budgeting reasons, as the production was unable to turn 2015 Brooklyn back to 1950s Brooklyn. Only two days of production were spent in Brooklyn, one in order to create the brownstone exterior shots and a second to film at Coney Island.
• Eilis is pronounced "Ay-lish".
• Second collaboration between Domhnall Gleeson and Julie Walters. He played Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter movies and she played his mother, Molly Weasley.
• The ending of the film differs from the ending of the novel. Nick Hornby created the new ending from scratch when adapting the novel.
Goofs:
• The film takes place in 1951-1952. As Eilis is walking down a street in Brooklyn, there is a 1955 Buick in the background.
• The characters go for a 1951 date to see the movie "Singing' in the Rain" - that movie did not come out until 1952.
• When returning to America, she stands in the customs line for US Citizens.
• In the dinner scene when Eilis meets Tony's family the food changes from spaghetti to a different meal after Frankie is yelled at.
• In scene where an Irish singer serenades an audience, at the top of a frame is an air conditioning duct that would not have existed in such a space in1952.
Have a fangtastic day, and remember -chocolate is half price now!
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• Rooney Mara was originally cast in the lead role. However, her eventual replacement, Saoirse Ronan, was a front-runner for the part since the film began development, but she was too young to portray Eilis. The production was stalled for years, Mara backed out and when the project was ready to resume, Ronan had aged properly to fit the character and won the part.
• The city of Brooklyn in the film was actually shot in Montreal for budgeting reasons, as the production was unable to turn 2015 Brooklyn back to 1950s Brooklyn. Only two days of production were spent in Brooklyn, one in order to create the brownstone exterior shots and a second to film at Coney Island.
• Eilis is pronounced "Ay-lish".
• Second collaboration between Domhnall Gleeson and Julie Walters. He played Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter movies and she played his mother, Molly Weasley.
• The ending of the film differs from the ending of the novel. Nick Hornby created the new ending from scratch when adapting the novel.
Goofs:
• The film takes place in 1951-1952. As Eilis is walking down a street in Brooklyn, there is a 1955 Buick in the background.
• The characters go for a 1951 date to see the movie "Singing' in the Rain" - that movie did not come out until 1952.
• When returning to America, she stands in the customs line for US Citizens.
• In the dinner scene when Eilis meets Tony's family the food changes from spaghetti to a different meal after Frankie is yelled at.
• In scene where an Irish singer serenades an audience, at the top of a frame is an air conditioning duct that would not have existed in such a space in1952.
Have a fangtastic day, and remember -chocolate is half price now!
<3 Brock V"""V
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