The story of a father's love that changed a nation.
Based on true events, Evelyn tells the inspiring story of real-life hero Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) and his young children, Evelyn (Sophie Vavasseur), Maurice (Hugh McDonagh) and Dermot (Niall Beagan). Struggling to raise his kids alone in Ireland in 1953, Doyle is devastated when the power of the Church and the Irish courts take his children away and put them in orphanages. Vowing to reunite his family, he enlists the help of his friends and together they attempt to do what has never been done before - challenge a law before the Irish Supreme Court. Doyle's fight to keep his family intact becomes an uplifting testament to a father's love and the power of the human spirit.
Special Agent Matti
Evelyn is almost a companion piece to the dark and bitter Magdalene Sisters. Together they form a diptych condemning the institution of Irish Catholicism. Any time that a selected group of people is given power over another group of people, problems arise. Religions are one of those problems.
When I'm god I won't let anyone start a religion.
Take a hanky.
PG (Mature themes, low level coarse language)
95 minutes (1:35 hours)
Film: 6 May 2004