Jimmy's Hall
★ 6.7 · 2014 · 106m · History · Drama
In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and he looks to reopen the dance hall that led to his deportation.
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