January 20, 2008
A touching movie!
Orla Brady,
Liam Cunningham,
Sarah Bolger,
Ali White,
Brian McGrath
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Based on a true story, A Love Divided chronicles the aftermath of Sheila's (Orla Brady) pledge to send her children to Catholic school. Raised Protestant, Sheila was forced to sign a contract obligati... read more
DVD Release Date: July 30, 2002
Stats: 27 reviews
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March 29, 2009Very good..based on a true story about the control that a Catholic church tried to put on a small town...and sadly succeeded in some ways.
Critic Reviews
December 14, 2001
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
November 30, 2001
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Powerful indictment of the lengths human beings will go to to be right. Full Review
September 21, 2001
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
It's like a PBS version of a movie of the week about child abduction, complete with histrionic, spit-flecked speechifying in quaint Irish brogues.
September 21, 2001
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
A cautionary tale of the mischief that can happen when men no longer see their neighbors as human.
June 22, 2001
Jay Carr, Boston Globe
A solid, balanced period piece that focuses on a specific place and time yet resonates with universal themes.
June 21, 2001
Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic
Sydney Macartney, whose previous directing experience had been mostly in television, deals freshly with situations that also could have been cliches.
June 6, 2001
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Both overly familiar in its themes and uncomfortably close to melodrama.
June 1, 2001
Stephen Holden, New York Times
A disquieting study of how irresponsible demagoguery can ignite an ideological wildfire that consumes an entire community. Full Review
May 29, 2001
Jessica Winter, Village Voice
Impeded by overemphatic camerawork and a meandering POV. Full Review
December 14, 2001
Jeffrey M. Anderson, San Francisco Examiner
A tug-at-your-heartstrings weepie from the sledgehammer school of filmmaking.
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