In Bed with Ulysses (2012)

Actors: Joel Goodman (composer), Kathleen Chalfant (actress), Christopher Cerf (actor), Mark De Gli Antoni (composer), Kate Taverna (producer), Kate Taverna (editor), Kate Taverna (director), Edna O'Brien (actress), Jerry Matz (actor), Alan Adelson (director), Alan Adelson (writer), Alan Adelson (producer), Colum McCann (actor), Paul McIsaac (actor), Paul McIsaac (actor),

In Bed with Ulysses (2012)

Actors: Joel Goodman (composer), Kathleen Chalfant (actress), Christopher Cerf (actor), Mark De Gli Antoni (composer), Kate Taverna (producer), Kate Taverna (editor), Kate Taverna (director), Edna O'Brien (actress), Jerry Matz (actor), Alan Adelson (director), Alan Adelson (writer), Alan Adelson (producer), Colum McCann (actor), Paul McIsaac (actor), Paul McIsaac (actor),

Bloom (2003)

Actors: Hugh O'Conor (actor), Ed Baran (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Rea (actor), Patrick Bergin (actor), Ronan Wilmot (actor), Britta Smith (actress), Donncha Crowley (actor), Jeanette McGrath (miscellaneous crew), Jimmy Keogh (actor), Alan Devlin (actor), Peadar Lamb (actor), Mal Whyte (actor), Pat McGrath (actor), Angeline Ball (actress), Luke Hayden (actor),

Plot: Fathers and sons and lovers. June, 1904. Leopold Bloom, Dublin Jew and cuckold, attends a funeral, recalls his infant son dead 11 years, faces an anti-Semite at a pub, has a phantasmagoric dream while at a brothel, feeds a drunken young poet Stephen Dedalus, bonds briefly with Stephen as if father and son, and gets into bed next to his wife Molly. Stephen spends his day teaching, talking about literature with pals, pondering Shakespeare and "Hamlet" and fatherhood, brooding on his dead mother, drinking too much, and accepting Bloom's hand. Molly, lusty Molly, recalls vividly her courtship and affirmation of Bloom. Homer's "Odyssey" provides the story's structure.

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James Joyce's Women (1985)

Actors: Fionnula Flanagan (producer), Laerke Sigfred Pedersen (miscellaneous crew), Fionnula Flanagan (actress), James Joyce (writer), Martin Dempsey (actor), Tony Lyons (actor), Dan Perry (editor), Joseph Taylor (actor), Gladys Sheehan (actress), Morgan Blackmore (actor), Chris O'Neill (actor), Arthur Keating (editor), Arthur Keating (composer), Gabrielle Keenan (actress), Gerald Fitzmahony (actor),

Plot: In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds. When she portrays his wife Nora remembering their time together, Flanagan captures the era and the author in lyrical detail. As Sylvia Beach, the woman who first published Ulysses, new dimensions concerning the importance of Nora in Joyce's literary visions of women emerge, and when Flanagan interprets Joyce characters like Molly Bloom or a washerwoman from Finnegan's Wake, the beauty of Joyce's language shines through the melodious words.

Ulysses (1967)

Actors: T.P. McKenna (actor), Maurice Roëves (actor), Fionnula Flanagan (actress), David Kelly (actor), Stanley Myers (composer), Milo O'Shea (actor), Joseph Strick (producer), Joseph Strick (writer), Joseph Strick (director), O.Z. Whitehead (actor), Tony Doyle (actor), Reginald Mills (editor), Derry Power (actor), Barbara Jefford (actress), Anna Manahan (actress),

Plot: Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.