{"id":1498,"date":"2022-03-17T10:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2022-04-06T20:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:22:58","slug":"st-patricks-day-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scriptchic.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"St Patrick&#8217;s Day Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a twist in celebrating St. Patrick&#8217;s Day this year, hubby and I decided to skip the parade and crowded pub and stay home.<\/p>\n<p>We sipped our green beer at home, sloughed on our couch, watching Irish-themed movies. While we only watched 3, we found there were quite a few movies to choose from that fit our Irish mood.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of the movies we found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Far and Away<\/strong> (1992) a period drama, featuring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, who travel from Ireland to America, both facing struggles with money and their feelings with each other.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In The Name Of The Father<\/strong> (1993) Daniel Day-Lewis plays Gerry Conlon, a petty thief falsely accused of orchestrating an IRA bombing in an London pub and his struggle to overturn his conviction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leprechaun<\/strong> (1993) A horror tale featuring Warwick Davis as a devilish leprechaun taunting Jennifer Aniston.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Waking Ned Devine<\/strong> (1998) A feel-good comedy about a dead guy in possession of a winning lottery ticket and the people of his small town who want to cash it in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ondine<\/strong> (2009) A variation of the movie <em>Splash<\/em> set in fishing village in Ireland with Colin Farrell as an recovering alcoholic father who snags\u00a0 a mysterious, beautiful woman in his fishing nets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leap Year<\/strong> (2010)\u00a0 Amy Adams plays a woman chases her boyfriend throughout Ireland in order to propose to him.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Guard<\/strong> (2011) A comedy thriller about an unorthodox Irish cop saddled with a straight-laced FBI agent who uncover corruption with the cop&#8217;s police department while investigating a drug-traffiking ring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brooklyn<\/strong> (2015) Saoirse Ronan, nominated for best actress for her performance, plays a young Irish immigrant in the 1950s who&#8217;s torn between her new life in New York City and the life she left behind in Ireland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which movies did we pick?\u00a0 Answer: Far and Away, The Guard, and Leap Year.<\/p>\n<p>Which movie(s) from our list would you pick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a twist in celebrating St. Patrick&#8217;s Day this year, hubby and I decided to skip the parade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[613,626,627,611,612,619,620,614,368,624,621,617,623,618,406,610,625,616,622,615],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writers-room-insights-and-tips-on-screenwriting","tag-amy-adams","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-movie","tag-colin-farrell","tag-daniel-day-lewis","tag-far-and-away-movie","tag-in-the-name-of-the-father-movie","tag-jennifer-aniston","tag-kathy-patterson-screenwriter","tag-leap-year-movie","tag-leprechaun-movie","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-ondine-movie","tag-saoirse-ronan","tag-scriptchic-kathy-patterson","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-the-guard-movie","tag-tom-cruise","tag-waking-ned-devine-movie","tag-warwick-davis","has-thumb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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