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A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930s Ireland. Five women different in temperament and capability from one another form a firm emotional support system for one another (reluctantly at times), with the eldest assuming the role of "somewhat meddling" overseer. Into this comes their elderly brother, a priest too senile to perform his clerical functions who has "come home to die" after a lifetime in Africa. Then the boys father rides up on a motorcycle--to announce that hes on his way to Spain to fight against Franco. Although undeniably affected by the presence of the two men, the sisters continue to cope as a close-knit unit until something happens that disrupts the fabric of that cohesiveness beyond repair.
Kate Mundy (Streep) is the eldest of five sisters living together in a small house in Ireland in 1936. The only one with a steady job, Kate oversees the various conflicting personalities. Though none of the women is married, Christina (McCormack) has a young son named Michael. The household works well in its fashion, but after the sisters senile brother, Jack (Gambon), shows up, and then Michaels father, Gerry (Ifans), things are unlikely to stay the same.
Meryl Streep
Kate Mundy
Michael Gambon
Father Jack Mundy
Gerard McSorley
Narration by
Catherine McCormack
Christina Mundy
Kathy Burke
Maggie Mundy
Sophie Thompson
Rose Mundy
Brid Brennan
Agnes Mundy
Rhys Ifans
Gerry Evans
Darrell Johnston
Michael Mundy
Lorcan Cranitch
Danny Bradley
John Kavanagh
Father Carlin
Marie Mullen
Vera McLoughlin
Dawn Bradfield
Sophia McLoughlin
Peter Gowen
Austin Morgan
Kate O'Toole
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