First Friday Film @ MRRL: Brookland

Ellis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant, navigates her way through 1950s Brooklyn in this award-winning film. Her initial homesickness soon gives way to romance, but when her life is disrupted by news from her hometown, she is forced to choose between and two men on opposite sides of the world.

Based on a bestselling novel by Colm Toibin, the film stars Saoirse Ronan and was nominated for multiple award in the U.S., Britain and Ireland.