Monday Afternoon @ the Movies: “Brooklyn” (2015)

March celebrates Women’s History and Irish-American Heritage – Brooklyn (2015) Two countries, two loves, one heart. Romantic period drama, based on Colm Tóibín’s 2009 novel, stars Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters. The plot follows Eilis Lacey (Ronan), a young Irish woman who immigrates to Brooklyn in the early 1950’s to find employment. After building a life there, she is drawn back to her home town of Enniscorthy and has to choose where she wants to forge her future. Rated PG-13: 1 hour 57 minutes.