(Rated R, 91 mins.) Opens various dates before Dec. 31
Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston makes a return to the director’s chair, identifying and illuminating universal truths about love, life and family. As actress and the movie’s lead, Huston incarnates a unique and inspiring character in Agnes Brown, a wife and mother of seven suddenly faced with coming of age. She resolves to take a second chance at love, while able to keep her twin senses of humor and resilience during 1967 Dublin, before the calamitous outbreak of bloody violence in Northern Ireland. Huston manages to capture the quintessential closeness that the Irish share without the small town blarney past movies use as a sugar coating. Adapted from the best-selling novel “The Mammy” by Brendan O’Carroll.
