Hop Film: Small Things Like These

Cillian Murphy delivers a quietly powerful performance in this stunning adaptation of Claire Keegan's best-selling novel about compassion and difficult moral choices.

1/18/2025
2:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Location
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Registration required
More information
Hopkins Center for the Arts
603 646 2422

Cillian Murphy delivers a quietly powerful performance in this stunning adaptation of Claire Keegan's best-selling novel about compassion and difficult moral choices.

Devoted father Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) works as a coal merchant to support his family. In the days leading up to Christmas, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent—and uncovers truths of his own. As he confronts his past, he weighs the costs of breaking the complicit silence surrounding the Catholic Church's Magdalene laundries in his small Irish town controlled by the Mother Superior (Emily Watson).

Based on Claire Keegan's best-selling novel, this story about a man wrestling with a difficult moral choice is beautiful in its simplicity. Cillian Murphy, fresh off his Oppenheimer Oscar win, delivers a nuanced performance of quiet intensity that is sure to earn him another nod this year. More interested in exploring questions about how one confronts systemic injustice than determining answers, this is a rare film that feeds the soul and also leaves you wanting more.

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Location
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Registration required
More information
Hopkins Center for the Arts
603 646 2422