Academy Awards, USA 2014
| Nominated Oscar | Best Motion Picture of the Year Gabrielle Tana Steve Coogan Tracey Seaward |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Judi Dench | |
| Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score Alexandre Desplat | |
| Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Steve Coogan Jeff Pope |
The Weinstein Company
Directed by Stephen Frears
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Anchor Bay)
Elderly Judi Dench, a widow in Dublin, wonders about the fate of a son who was forcefully taken from her and given up for adoption in a convent decades earlier. She is introduced to a journalist through her daughter, and he agrees to help her search for him for a story. The nuns are not much help, so they follow the clues to America where they soon discover her son's fate. This in turn leads full circle back to the nunnery in Ireland. Steve Coogan as the journalist is mostly a distraction: attempts at humor fall flat and arguments about religion and atheism embarrassing. However, Judi Dench makes up for all of that: she carries the film through her simple, unassuming character; a pure joy to watch.
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