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This Is My Father

1998

A weary Irish-American schoolteacher travels to Ireland to uncover the story of his parents, piecing together the tragic, forbidden love affair between his mother and a poor farmer decades earlier. A tender, elegiac drama.

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A Canadian outsider drama reconstructing a family story in rural Ireland.

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Part of 10 Movies Set in or About Ireland

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