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Jimmy's hall [videorecording (DVD)].

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2015.

Gralton, Jimmy, 1886-1945 -- Drama.

Political activists -- Ireland -- Biography -- Drama.

Communists -- Ireland -- Biography -- Drama.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (approx. 109 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on a true story.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.

A Great Britain/Ireland/France co-production.

Includes English and French language tracks with optional English, English (SDH) or French subtitles as well as an English 5.1 audio description track.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Audio description track (for people with visual disabilities).

Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, Element Pictures ; BFI, Film4, Bord Scannán na héireann/Irish Film Board ; France 2 Cinéma, Canal +, Cine +, Le Pacte, Les Films du Fleuve, Longride Inc., France Télévisions ; screenplay, Paul Laverty ; producer, Rebecca O'Brien ; director, Ken Loach.

Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton, Francis Magee, Aisling Franciosi, Andrew Scott and Brían F. O'Byrne.

"In 1921 Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream...but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity its socialist and free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who Jimmy to flee and the hall to close. A decade later, at the height of the Depression, Jimmy returns to Co. Leitrim from the US to look after his mother and vows to live the quiet life. The hall stands abandoned and empty, and despite the pleas of the local youngsters, remains shut. However as Jimmy reintegrates into the community and sees the poverty, and growing cultural oppression, the leader and activist within him is stirred. He makes the decision to reopen the hall in the face of what they may bring."--Container.

Biographical films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Films for people with visual disabilities.

Described video.

Loach, Ken, 1936-

Ward, Barry (Actor)

Franciosi, Aisling, 1993-

Scott, Andrew, 1976 October 21-

O'Byrne, Brian F.

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