“Belfast” quotes
(2021)
Sir Kenneth Branagh
directed this movie
in 2021
Title Belfast
Year 2021
Director Kenneth Branagh
Genre Drama, Biography
Year 2021
Director Kenneth Branagh
Genre Drama, Biography
Plot – Belfast is a 2021 British coming-of-age drama film following a young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Buddy is a young child, growing up, doing what normal children do. But soon he finds himself confronted with the ugly reality of sectarian conflict. Violence has broken out between Protestants and Catholics and Buddy's family are stuck in the middle. Now, Buddy's family must come face to face with a nearly impossible, life-altering decision: stay or start packing?
All actors – Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds, Josie Walker, Freya Yates, Nessa Eriksson, Charlie Barnard, Frankie Hastings, Máiréad Tyers, Caolan McCarthy, Ian Dunnett Jnr, Michael Maloney, Lara McDonnell
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“So the doctor says, 'Listen, John, I've got some bad news and worse.' And John says, 'Oh, no. What's the bad news?' And he goes, 'Well, you've only got 24 hours to live.' John says, 'That's, that's awful. What could be worse than that?' Doctor says, 'Well, I've been trying to get ahold of you since yesterday.'”
“Oh, that puts me in mind of a great wee system we had in the old days for paying the rent. The rent man would come round and collect the money for every house in the whole street, and once he had done and all the rent books were marked up to date, one of the boys would hold him up at gunpoint in the back entry and take all the money back off him...” (continue)(continue reading)
“When you've gray hair, people think your heart never skipped.”
“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.”
“There's nothing wrong with an outside toilet, except on an aeroplane.”
“Women are very mysterious.”
“...if they can't understand ya, then they're not listening. And that's their problem.”
“The Irish were born for leavin', otherwise the rest of the world'd have no pubs.”
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