This Is My Father

Ireland, Canada

1998

120 Min

Color

1.78:1

English

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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EXEC Kieran Corrigan, Aidan Quinn, Declan Quinn, Paul Quinn, Elie Samaha

PROD Nicolas Clermont, Philip King

CAST James Caan, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Moya Farrelly, Jacob Tierney, Donal Donnelly, Colm Meaney, John Cusack, Brendan Gleeson, John Kavanaugh

MUSIC Donal Lunny

Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), San Francisco

Synopsis

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland. In flashbacks, we watch a romance develop between Kieran’s mother, a college girl, and his father (Aidan Quinn), an inarticulate farmhand — despite her family’s objections.