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Jimmys Hall
In 1930s Ireland, political activist Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) faces deportation for running a community hall for the arts, enabling the villagers to gather to sing, dance, paint, study or box, which led to his deportation.
1993, Italy
16 May 1967, Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
1960, Sligo Town, County Sligo, Ireland
4 January 1938, Dublin, Ireland
15 February 1983, Donegal, Ireland
September 10, 2016
Barry Ward's handsome, charismatic hero is a romanticised figure (in reality Gralton was middle-aged and balding), which wouldn't matter if his character had been given more depth and shade.
July 16, 2015
There's humanity here, on all sides, and a gentle wisdom beneath the raging rhetoric.
December 31, 2015
Even an ultimately forgettable effort from this esteemed social-realist director can't help but achieve eloquence in its affirmation of basic human decency.
March 22, 2016
It's mildly entertaining but suffers from the one problem common to all these movies -- that the enemy is so vile, there is little shading.
April 06, 2016
This 1930s-set drama chronicling events leading to the deportation of a little-known, real-life Irish political activist is a graceful digest of Loach's signature motifs.
August 06, 2015
Loach is clearly on Gralton's side, but he's remarkably evenhanded about it. Norton is a formidable villain, while Ward is just vulnerable enough to make the showdown dramatically persuasive.
January 09, 2016
... a soft-focus, minor film. It's not bad, but it could have been better. Hence the heartbreak.
July 17, 2015
As dramatically stilted as Jimmy's Hall is, it has an undeniably appealing integrity ...
July 16, 2015
While this deeply romanticized and fictionalized account of a little-known underdog might not serve you in any trivia capacities, it's also a worthy and loving story of humanity in the face of oppression.
August 19, 2015
Working from a fact-based screenplay by his longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, Loach addresses a theme that resonates throughout his work: the effect of the political on the personal.
May 16, 2016
A handsomely mounted, yet modest and precise piece of work that unearths a little-known true story of injustice and reminds us all of how the present is always in the shadow of the past.