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Circle of Friends (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Pat O'Connor

Written By:
Maeve Binchy
Andrew Davies

Actors:
Chris O'Donnell ..... Jack Foley
Minnie Driver ..... Bernadette 'Benny' Hogan
Geraldine O'Rawe ..... Eve Malone
Saffron Burrows ..... Nan Mahon
Alan Cumming ..... Sean Walsh
Colin Firth ..... Simon Westward
Aidan Gillen ..... Aidan Lynch
Mick Lally ..... Dan Hogan
Britta Smith ..... Mrs. Hogan
John Kavanagh ..... Brian Mahon
Ruth McCabe ..... Emily Mahon
Ciarán Hinds ..... Professor Flynn
Tony Doyle ..... Dr. Foley
Marie Mullen ..... Mrs. Foley
Marie Conmee ..... Mrs. Healey

Synopsis:

Set in 1957, this romantic coming-of-age story follows three childhood friends from a small town in Ireland as they head to Dublin to attend Trinity College. Nan (Saffron Burrows), a year older than her friends and already in her second year at Trinity, is ambitious, romantic, and just a bit reckless. She hopes to win the hand of Simon (Colin Firth), an older Protestant land-owner who would help her rise up the social and economic ladder. Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), a bit more pragmatic and cautious, finds herself falling for a boy named Aidan (Aidan Gillen). Bernadette (Minnie Driver), called 'Benny' by her friends and family, comes from strict parents who won't allow her to live on campus, forcing her to commute back and forth from classes every day. Bennie's father, a haberdasher, has always expected that his daughter, a bit plainer and plumper than her friends, will marry his shop's manager, an odd duck named Sean (Alan Cumming). But at Trinity, Bennie discovers that she fancies a tall, good-looking rugby player named Jack (Chris O'Donnell), and to the surprise of Bennie and everyone else, it turns out that Jack fancies her as well. Circle of Friends gave Minnie Driver her breakthrough film role after her initial success as a television actress in Britain.

Rites-of-passage drama. Set in Ireland in the 1950s. Nan, Eve and Bennie are friends. Nan introduces Bennie to Jack Foley, a medical student at college in Dublin. Jack and Bennie fall in love but their relationship is soured when Nan seduces Jack when he is drunk. Nan has fallen pregnant by Simon, a local landlord, who has told her he will not marry her. Nan convinces Jack he is the father of her baby and Jack feels forced into marrying her. Eve confronts Nan with her suspicions about her liaisons with Simon and Nan runs away to England. Jack finds himself free again and once more sets his sights on Bennie.

Circle Of Friends is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve meet and befriend the ice-cool Nan Mahon, the 'college belle'. They also encounter the handsome and charming Jack Foley, whom Benny quickly falls for.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 07 February, 2008.