A Love Divided

Name: A Love Divided
Genre: Biography, Romance
Released: June 1, 2001
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Peter Caffrey

2001

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: June 1, 2001 | Unrated

Starring: Peter Caffrey

Summary: The dramatic true story of a marriage between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in 1950's Ireland.

Director: Sydney Macartney

Genre(s): Biography, Romance

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 98 min

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Stephen Hunter

Stunningly acted by Liam Cunningham and Orla Brady as the Cloneys. Read full review

Jack Mathews

If it weren't based on a true story, you might suspect Sydney McCartney's A Love Divided was created by a panel of militant Irish Protestants. Read full review

Marta Barber

Will leave you taking sides, whether or not that was the film's intent. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

While the film's exploration of Irish religious intolerance takes it to many familiar areas, the specifics are unfamiliar and fine performances -- especially those of leads Cunningham and Brady. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

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. Read full review

Jessica Winter

Brady and Cunningham share a volatile, symbiotic chemistry, sketching in elegant shorthand the rhythms of a lusty, combative marriage. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

The actors do a fine, if unsoulful, job, but the real problem with A Love Divided is its unwillingness to unromanticize its heroes. Read full review

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Ben-Basile

Jan 17, 2012

I've only seen the movie once, and a long while ago, but I remember being blown away by how good it was. The acting is brilliant, you really feel the tension, danger, and loneliness and just anger the characters do. Also, the pub performance of Bobby Burn's poem (beloved Scott-Irish poet)I've only seen the movie once, and a long while ago, but I remember being blown away by how good it was. The acting is brilliant, you really feel the tension, danger, and loneliness and just anger the characters do. Also, the pub performance of Bobby Burn's poem (beloved Scott-Irish poet) "Ae Fond Kiss" set to mandolin and singing was SO GOOD that I got my mom to use it as a piece we performed in our highschool choir and we got second in the state (Texas) with that on our list. I've been searching for this movie for YEARS and I'm glad I've finally found it, I couldn't remember the title but I'll never forget it, and I'll buy this as soon as I can! This was the first time I've heard that song/poem, and now it's one of my favorites and I still think this movie performance is the best there is though I have many other versions of the song.… Expand

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