In America

After a seven-year hiatus producing other filmmakers' projects, Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan (MY LEFT FOOT) returned to directing with this intimate portrait of a grief-stricken Irish family in New York City. Hoping to make a new start after the death of their young son from a brain tumor, aspiring actor Johnny Sullivan (Paddy Considine) and his wife, Sarah (Samantha Morton), pack up their two young daughters, Christy and Ariel (Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger), and move from Ireland to a pigeon-plagued apartment in a junkie-infested building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They fix the place up as best they can, and while the neighborhood may not be the greatest place to ...