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  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 45 m
In America

Summary From master storyteller Jim Sheridan comes a deeply personal and emotionally raw tale of a family finding its soul In America. Through the wide-open eyes of two young heroines, Sheridan transforms a devastating human tragedy into a riveting, humor-tinged story about memory, secrets, love, loss, coming together and starting over. (Fox S...

Directed By: Jim Sheridan

Written By: Naomi Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, Jim Sheridan

  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 45 m

In America

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 41 Critic Reviews
76
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 18 User Ratings
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Summary From master storyteller Jim Sheridan comes a deeply personal and emotionally raw tale of a family finding its soul In America. Through the wide-open eyes of two young heroines, Sheridan transforms a devastating human tragedy into a riveting, humor-tinged story about memory, secrets, love, loss, coming together and starting over. (Fox S...

Directed By: Jim Sheridan

Written By: Naomi Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, Jim Sheridan

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 41 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 41 Critic Reviews
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15% Mixed
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In America is the most unexpected and personal triumph yet from Jim Sheridan.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
90
Magic suffuses this film -- performances that approach perfection, or achieve it, moments of exceptional grace as a troubled family plays out a contemporary version of a classic immigration saga, healing itself in the process.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
83
It's a fresh-hearted film that only frustrates when you sense how close it is to being exceptional.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
75
In the end, is In America slight in its sentimentality and manipulative in its moral? Sure, but that's the job of any fable or myth.
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
70
The film is not emotionally subtle, but it is beautifully shot, by cinematographer Declan Quinn, with a grainy, impressionistic eye that mimics a perpetual dance of shards of remembered experience.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
70
Warm and borderline sentimental...also brimming with true and privileged moments, as well as an optimism in the face of tough circumstances that serves as a corrective to some of the more fashionably grim modern accounts of similar stories.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW
50
In short, the Sheridan of In America wants us to pity his characters for the rough ride that they endure, yet at the same time he traps them inside a bubble of the picturesque and the outlandish. Even if you like this movie, you have to ask: What has it done to deserve its title? [1 December 2003, p. 118]
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Hell's Kitchen Films, East of Harlem (UK) Ltd., Irish Film Industry, Harlem Film Productions Ltd.
Release Date Nov 26, 2003
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline One family's coming of age story.
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 8 Nominations

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