Film· 2024· Drama

Small Things Like These

by Tim Mielants

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  • Magdalene laundries

The film exposes the Magdalene laundries, where the Catholic Church confined unmarried mothers in Ireland until 1996.

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Small Things Like These

In a small Irish town in 1985, a coal merchant delivering to the local convent before Christmas discovers how the Church's Magdalene laundry treats the girls inside. Cillian Murphy stars in Tim Mielants's adaptation of Claire Keegan's novella.

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