Countdown to St. Patrick's Day - 5
When In America was released in the States, it was very popular with the Irish American community and with good reason. It is a Jim Sheridan film, semi autobiographical and nominated for multiple Oscars. The nominations were all well deserved. At that time I highly recommended the film and I still do. The movie is about the Sullivans, a young Irish family whose father is trying to break into show business. They live in Hells Kitchen with the mother working in an ice cream parlor. The girls, Christy and Ariel, attend Catholic school. Christy uses a camcorder as a way of documenting their family life. The girls meet one of their neighbors, Mateo, on Halloween night. Mateo is an artist who is HIV-positive caused by a bad blood transfusion. Mateo is also Nigerian and away from his family. Life goes on, Sarah becomes pregnant, Mateo becomes a full blown AIDS patient. In America, we are born, live and die just as everyone else in the world. This is a wonderful movie about love of family, love of friends, enjoying what we have, and being open to what life brings us. Although this is a movie about a young family, this is not a movie for young children due to the adult themes. I see this as a movie for high school students and on up. This is a definite check it out movie.
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