Brooklyn: Book vs. Movie
John Crowley's 2015 film Brooklyn adapts Colm Tóibín's book, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby. Saoirse Ronan plays Eilis Lacey, an Irish immigrant building a life in New York whose return home complicates her future.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- Year
- 2009
- Pages
- 288Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 50 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Saoirse Ronan
With few prospects in her Irish hometown, Eilis Lacey accepts help finding work and lodging in Brooklyn. Homesickness gradually gives way to routines, evening classes and a relationship with an Italian American plumber. When family news draws her back across the Atlantic, the life she has begun building must compete with familiar obligations and possibilities she thought she had left behind.
- Director
- John Crowley
- Writer
- Nick Hornby
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 1 hr 52 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent
- Genre
- drama, melodrama
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Eilis arrives in New York with a job waiting and no idea how to stop missing Ireland. A romance with Tony helps her imagine staying, but an unexpected loss calls her home. Surrounded again by familiar people, and courted by another man, she struggles to explain the commitments she has made across the ocean.
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