Digitally mastered audio & anamorphic video; Production notes; Interactive menus; Director Paul Quinn & Aiden Quinn audio commentary. Aidan Quinn - Kieran O'Day, James Caan - Kieran Johnson, Stephen Rea - Father Quinn, John Cusack - Eddie Sharp, Moya Farrelly - Fiona Flynn, Jacob Tierney - Jack, Colm Meaney -Seamus Kearney, Donal Donnelly - John Maney, Brendan Gleeson - Officer Jim, John Kavanagh -Liam, Eamon Morrissey - Father Mooney, Maria McDernottroe - Mrs. Maney, Gina Moxley - Mary Flynn, Moira Deady - Mrs. Kearney, Pauline Hutton - Maria.
Summary:
Paul Quinn scripted and made his directorial debut with this period drama about middle-aged schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan), who finds evidence indicating that his real father was an Irish farmer and not a French seaman as he had been told. Since his mute and paralyzed mother offers no answers, he investigates by traveling to an Irish village with his teenage nephew (Jacob Tierney). After this prologue, the film flashes back to the family roots: Kieran's mother Fiona Flynn (Moya Farrelly) back home from convent school, catches the eye of dirt tenant farmer Kieran O'Day (Aidan Quinn). Their romance gets underway despite disapprovals from family and friends. Shown at 1998 film fests (Montreal, Toronto).
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