A Love Divided

A Love Divided (1999)

  • 53% of critics liked it
    (19 reviews)

  • 54% of users liked it
    (859 ratings)

Based on a true story, A Love Divided chronicles the aftermath of Sheila's (Orla Brady) pledge to send her children to Catholic school. Raised Protestant, Sheila was forced to sign a contract obligating her to bring up her own children as Catholics when she was married into the religion, but… More

In Theaters
Jan 1, 1999 Wide
Parallel Films

Critic Reviews

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    An Irish drama that's a lot more sly and a lot less straightforward than it appears on the surface.

  • Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

    Powerful indictment of the lengths human beings will go to to be right.

  • Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

    The drama feels artificially pumped-up.

  • Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

    It's like a PBS version of a movie of the week about child abduction, complete with histrionic, spit-flecked speechifying in quaint Irish brogues.

  • Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

    A cautionary tale of the mischief that can happen when men no longer see their neighbors as human.

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