Search: Starring Brenda Fricker

Casualty: Series 2 (1987)
The lives and loves of staff and patients at a busy casualty department... injected with a healthy dose of politics, racism and more blood than a
Closing The Ring (2007)

Review preview for Closing The Ring

Closing The Ring delivers romance on an epic scale and seems destined to be the pride of some people's DVD collections, but beneath the gloss and the carefully crafted performances, it's lacking something.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5

A widow's carefully constructed life unravels following the discovery of the ring worn by the man she loved 50 years before.
Cloudburst (2011)

Review preview for Cloudburst

Stella is a gleefully crude dyke who could give Malcolm Tucker a run for his money in a creative swearing contest.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5

An elderly lesbian couple flee the threat of a nursing home and head to Canada to marry, picking up a hitchhiker along the way.
Inside I'm Dancing (2004)

Review preview for Inside I'm Dancing

The performances are flawless, the story laced with black humour.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5

Anarchic behavior in a care home leads to freedom and independence for two disabled Irishmen.
A Long Way From Home (2013)

Review preview for A Long Way From Home

The film never goes anywhere, never develops any conflict and never feels believable.

Robert Munro · 1 out of 5

Meeting a holidaying couple causes a retired couple to reassess life.
Milk (2004)

Review preview for Milk

Excellent performances and an intriguing script.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5

A woman bathes her grandma.
Painted Angels (1999)

Review preview for Painted Angels

The pace is slow, as you would expect, and the prospects for the prostitutes sad beyond belief.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5

The brutal life of prostitutes in a wild west cathouse.
Tara Road (2005)

Review preview for Tara Road

The plot is as real as a bouquet of silk roses.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5

Love hurts for an innocent wife in Dublin and a grieving mother in New England.
Trauma (2004)

Review preview for Trauma

Trauma simply fails to engage the viewer's interest.

Keith Hennessey Brown · 2.5 out of 5

A man traumatised by the death of his wife becomes implicated in the death of a pop star.
Veronica Guerin (2003)

Review preview for Veronica Guerin

Director Joel Schumacher is subdued.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5

True story of an Irish journalist who was assassinated.
The War Bride (2001)

Review preview for The War Bride

A waste of Friel's fiery talent.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5

Anna Friel marries shy soldier during the Blitz and goes to Canada to live with his depressed family.