In America (film)
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| Directed by | Jim Sheridan |
| Produced by | Jim Sheridan Arthur Lappin |
| Written by | Jim Sheridan Naomi Sheridan Kirsten Sheridan |
| Starring |
Samantha Morton Paddy Considine Sarah Bolger Emma Bolger Djimon Hounsou |
| Narrated by | Sarah Bolger |
| Music by |
Gavin Friday Maurice Seezer |
| Cinematography | Declan Quinn |
| Edited by | Naomi Geraghty |
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Hell's Kitchen Films
East of Harlem (UK) Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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105 minutes |
| Country | Ireland United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $25,382,911 |
In America is a 2003 Irish-American-British drama film directed by Jim Sheridan. The semi-autobiographical screenplay by Sheridan and his daughters Naomi and Kirsten focuses on an immigrant Irish family's struggle to start a new life in New York City, as seen through the eyes of the elder daughter.
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay for the Sheridans, Best Actress for Samantha Morton and Best Supporting Actor for Djimon Hounsou.
In 1982, Johnny and Sarah Sullivan and their daughters Christy and Ariel enter the United States on a tourist visa from Ireland via Canada, where Johnny was working as an actor. The family settles in New York City, in a rundown Hell's Kitchen tenement occupied by drug addicts, transvestites, and a reclusive Nigerian artist/photographer named Mateo Kuamey. Hanging over the family is the death of their five-year-old son Frankie, who died from a brain tumor. The devout Roman Catholic Johnny questions God and has lost any ability to feel true emotions, which has affected his relationship with his family. Christy believes she has been granted three wishes by her dead brother, which she only uses at times of near-dire consequences for the family as they try to survive in New York.
After finding the apartment, Sarah gets a job in the local ice cream parlor to support the family while Johnny auditions for any role for which he is suited, with no success. Despite their poverty, the initial joy of being in the United States and the closeness of the family gives them the energy to make the most of what they have, and Christy chronicles the events of their life with a cherished camcorder. But as money runs low and the city's temperatures soar, tensions between Johnny and Sarah begin to rise with them. Not helping their financial and emotional strain is the discovery that Sarah is pregnant. Johnny finds work as a cab driver to augment their income and help pay for the girls' Catholic school tuition.
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