Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Orla Brady | ... | Sheila Kelly Cloney | |
Liam Cunningham | ... | Sean Cloney | |
Sarah Bolger | ... | Eileen Cloney | |
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Nicole Bohan | ... | Mary Cloney |
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Brian McGrath | ... | Fred Kelly |
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Ali White | ... | Dorothy Kelly |
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Peter Caffrey | ... | Andy Bailey |
Tony Doyle | ... | Father Stafford | |
Jim Norton | ... | Reverend Fischer | |
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Joe Gallagher | ... | Alec Auld |
Doreen Keogh | ... | Lucy Knipe | |
Rynagh O'Grady | ... | Minnie Kennedy | |
Ger Ryan | ... | Anna Walsh | |
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Garrett Keogh | ... | Jimmy Kennedy |
Peter Gowen | ... | Patrick Peely (as Peter Gowan) |
The true story of a Catholic man and his Protestant wife, and the events resulting in the Co. Wexford, Ireland community when the wife decides she doesn't appreciate being forced to send their daughter to a Catholic school, despite the local priest's insistence she is bound by the pre-marriage agreement she signed to raise any children as Catholic. Written by Falling for an Actor - Liam Cunningham Web Site <liamfans@usa.net>
This movie might not put the Catholic church in the best light but it is telling a story based on true events. Unfortunately not everything in life, including religion, are all nice and rosy. Sometimes people and groups do things that at the time seem like the right thing but in retrospective do not look as great as they once did. "A Love Divided" tells the story of a family, yes it does incorporate religion, but really the story is about a family, and that family's ability to stay together no matter what is thrown at them. This film is also based on true events which is not to say that this story, scene by scene, is true, but if you were to look at news articles from that time period you would be able to see that neither churches handled the incident in a way that was helpful towards the family. Both churches are at fault here, the Catholic church for forcing such a regulation on the family in the first place and not responding to the violence that came with it and the Protestant church for telling the mother that she should just obey her husband and his priest and not put up a fight. In this case both let this family down. I believe that the film does a good job in showing this struggle in both the church and the family. It in no way shape or form is putting down the Catholic church, just the opposite, it shows how one incident can change the course of that religion's ideas and how one person can have an effect far more reaching then just themselves.