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The Sapphires
Why this pick
Shared genres: Comedy, Drama.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1985 1h 44m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1965, Boston teenager Michael Dunn (Andrew McCarthy) and his young sister Boo (Jennifer Dundas) have been sent to Brooklyn to live with their Irish-Catholic grandparents (Kate Reid & Richard Hamilton (actor)) following the deaths of their parents. He is enrolled at St. Basil's, the strict all-boys Roman Catholic school run by St. Basil's Church, where his grandmother is determined to see him fulfill his parents' dream of him joining the priesthood after graduation. Dunn befriends Caesar (Malcolm Danare), an over-weight, bespectacled bookworm. Caesar helps Dunn catch up with the rest of the class, but because of their association, foul-mouthed class bully and underachiever Ed Rooney (Kevin Dillon) bullies Dunn with a prank outside of the soda fountain across the street from school.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Andrew McCarthy
Michael Dunn
Kevin Dillon
Rooney
Patrick Dempsey
Corbet
Malcolm Danare
Caesar
Stephen Geoffreys
Williams
Mary Stuart Masterson
Danni
Donald Sutherland
Brother Thadeus
John Heard
Brother Timothy