Jimmy's Hall

Jimmy's Hall

Where Anything Goes and Everyone Belongs.

2014106 min6.7 / 10

A warmly humanistic drama about community resistance and cultural defiance in Depression-era Ireland, grounded in historical struggle but animated by hope and solidarity.

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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