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“Home For Christmas is …..a complete pleasure” |
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Home for Christmas is a 52-minute feature drama, produced by Icebox Films for RTÉ, which premiered on RTÉ Network 2 at 9:00pm on Thursday, 26th December, 2002. |
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A striking ensemble feature, Home for Christmas is set in the heart of middle class small-town Ireland on a contemporary Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, imploding with the season's heightened expectations and disappointments, drink-fuelled garrulousness and silence, family role-playing and honesty, sliced through with sharp black comedy. |
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Dr
Mona Quirke (Dearbhla Molloy), matriarch of The Quirke Family, is
determined that Christmas re-united with her three children, son-in-law
and granddaughter, will be celebrated in appropriate style - notwithstanding
the absence of her husband, Dr Noel Quirke, who disappeared many years
before.
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| It's Christmas Eve. Cora Quirke (Maria Doyle Kennedy) has returned from London with her husband, Thom (Martin Murphy) and four-year-old daughter, the silent Maggie (Isabella Devine). Damien (David Wilmot), the rebel of the family is there physically, if not in spirit, and Jessica (Emily Nagle), the youngest is a reluctant late arrival, trailing a new American friend, Norman (Colin O'Donoghue), in her wake. | ||
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Written and directed by Charlie McCarthy and produced by Clíona Ní Bhuachalla, Home For Christmas was shot over a twelve day period on location on the shores of Lough Corrib, Connemara, in November 2002, with a sterling ensemble cast. |
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