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PLUCK OF THE IRISH Oscar nominee Morton and her co-stars enrich ''In America'''s poor-immigrant tale
In America: Barry Wetcher
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Rated: PG-13; DVD Release Date: May 11, 2004; Genre: Drama; With: Paddy Considine, Djimon Hounsou and Samantha Morton; Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures See More
All About
In America--
Jennifer Armstrong
Most of the time, Jennifer Armstrong is indulging her TiVo habit, watching and rewatching ''Alias,'' ''The O.C.,'' and ''Newlyweds.'' The rest of the time, she's writing about TV for EW
In America, Jim Sheridan's semi-autobiographical masterwork -- cowritten with his daughters Naomi and Kirsten -- follows an immigrant Irish family's struggle to lay their painful memories of a child's death to rest while building a new life in New York. Ten-year-old Christy (Sarah Bolger) narrates her travails with little sister Ariel (Emma Bolger, Sarah's real-life sibling) and their parents, struggling-actor dad Johnny (Paddy Considine) and mom Sarah (Samantha Morton). The foursome's dire financial situation lends a horror-movie level of suspense to everyday occurrences like lugging an air conditioner across town in a heat wave or betting every cent on a carnival game to win Ariel a doll. Their friendship with a loner neighbor (Djimon Hounsou) grazes cliché territory but never crosses over thanks to richly layered performances from the entire cast, Oscar-nominated (Hounsou and Morton) or not.
EXTRAS Sheridan's commentary is enlightening, deleted scenes are better with his audio track, but the making-of featurette doesn't provide much insight.
Posted May 21, 2004
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