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Based on a true story, A Love Divided chronicles the aftermath of Sheila's (Orla Brady) pledge to send her children to Catholic school. Raised Protestant, Sheila was forced to sign a contract obligating her to bring up her own children as Catholics when she was married into the religion, but years later she decides that no church will dictate the religion chosen for her kids. The dogmatic Father Stafford (Tony Doyle), however, is so relentless in his insistence that her children do, indeed,
Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.
Jan 1, 1999 Wide
Jul 30, 2002
Parallel Films
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (9) | DVD (1)
An Irish drama that's a lot more sly and a lot less straightforward than it appears on the surface.
Powerful indictment of the lengths human beings will go to to be right.
It's like a PBS version of a movie of the week about child abduction, complete with histrionic, spit-flecked speechifying in quaint Irish brogues.
A cautionary tale of the mischief that can happen when men no longer see their neighbors as human.
A solid, balanced period piece that focuses on a specific place and time yet resonates with universal themes.
Sydney Macartney, whose previous directing experience had been mostly in television, deals freshly with situations that also could have been cliches.
A tug-at-your-heartstrings weepie from the sledgehammer school of filmmaking.
The drama feels artificially pumped-up.
The gripping A Love Divided will leave you taking sides, whether or not that was the film's intent.
Overplays its hand, with far too much melodramatic shouting from leads Liam Cunningham and Orla Brady.
Personal views aside, this small, well-crafted Irish production achieves importance by saying what it intends to say with both strength and conviction.
Fine performances ... help keep it from seeming excessively schematic.
It fails to arouse much more than deep annoyance.
A touching movie!
January 20, 2008Super Reviewer
Very good..based on a true story about the control that a Catholic church tried to put on a small town...and sadly succeeded in some ways.
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