Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right...( read more  read more... ) girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.

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R, 98 min.

Directed by: Suri Krishnamma

Release Date: September 10, 1994

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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