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7.0/10 • 19

2023-11-231h 29m

AnimationDramaFamilyFantasy

Mary is a 12-year-old girl with a passion for cooking, absorbing information from her grandmother, who is a wonderful cook. However, Mary and her family must come to terms with her grandmother's illness.

Directors
Enzo D'Alò

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  1. Mia O’Connor

    Mia O’Connor

    Mary (voice)

  2. Sharon Horgan

    Sharon Horgan

    Scarlett (voice)

  3. Brendan Gleeson

    Brendan Gleeson

    Paddy (voice)

  4. Rosaleen Linehan

    Rosaleen Linehan

    Emer (voice)

  5. Charlene McKenna

    Charlene McKenna

    Tansey (voice)

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CinemaSerf

Jul 2, 2024

7/10

The young "Mary" has travelled the length of Ireland to submit her recipe to an exclusive cookery school. They deride it as bland to the chagrin of her feisty grandmother who promises that they'll be back. It's on their lengthy drive afterwards that we discover something of the close bond between them and that she's got quite a nasty cough. Back home, her mother "Scarlett" is concerned at events that end up with the old lady in hospital with, according to the nervous "Dr. Patel", not too long to go. It's around this time that the youngster meets "Anastasia" in the woods. She is a sympathetic and slightly enigmatic soul who assures the girl that everything will be "grand" - but who is she? She knows things she shouldn't but not in a malevolent fashion. When she eventually meets granny, things begin to make a little sense as the four women travel/abscond to her abandoned childhood home in County Wexford. It does meander a little too much: there are far too many animated equivalents of establishing and beauty shots, and there isn't a great deal of jeopardy as the plot unravels rather predictably. That doesn't matter so much, though, as this adaptation of Roddy Doyle's story of family, love, life and ... death manages to hit home in a subtle and friendly fashion. The art work itself is a little two dimensional, with most of the visual emphasis on the big-eyed faces but try to stay focussed on the colcannon that you can almost smell. There's a simple charm to this story and it does leave you with a slightly warm feeling when you leave the cinema afterwards.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
based on novel or bookroad tripmother daughter relationshipgrandmother granddaughter relationshipmulti generational