This Is My Father

This Is My Father

🎞️ Movie 119 min IE
โ˜… 6.9 /10 1998

A Journey Of The Heart.

Widowed Kieran Johnson is a lonely, middle-aged, Chicago-based high school history teacher who feels disconnected to his life. He decides to take a trip to his mother's small old hometown of Kilronan, County Galway, Ireland after he discovers an old photograph of her, she who now cannot speak due to a stroke, with a man he has never seen. He suspects this man may be his biological father. On the urging of his sister, Kieran takes his teen-aged nephew Jack on the trip. In Kilronan, Mrs. Kearney, the innkeeper's mother and a bit of a gypsy woman who has lived in the area for the better part of her life, tells Kieran and Jack about life in the town in 1939 when a high-spirited Fiona Flynn, Kieran's mother, started seeing a peat farmer named Kieran O'Day. Kieran O'Day grew up a 'poorhouse bastard', and as such he was always shy and considered an outsider amongst the townsfolk. Because of his standing in the community and the differences in their ages (she being only seventeen, he in his thirties), Fiona and Kieran's relationship was looked down upon by those considered the upstanding in town, including Fiona's widowed mother, Mary Flynn, and those associated with the church. Mrs. Kearney slowly tells the entire story of Kieran and Fiona's relationship, the tragedy that prevented their love for not being enough to endure the scrutiny, the stories of the 'curses' that befell the Flynn family, and the truth behind the person Kieran Johnson knew as his father.

Cast

Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn
Kieran O'Day
James Caan
James Caan
Kieran Johnson
Jacob Tierney
Jacob Tierney
Jack
Colm Meaney
Colm Meaney
Seamus
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Moira Deady
Mrs. Kearney
Susan Almgren
Susan Almgren
Betty
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Pauline Hutton
Maria
Fiona Glascott
Fiona Glascott
Nuala
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Françoise Graton
Old Fiona
Joel Gordon
Joel Gordon
Brian Winters
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Donal Lunny
Composer
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Declan Quinn
Cinematographer