![]() ![]() The girls insist on trick-or-treating in their apartment building, even at the door with a "keep away" sign, the home of an angry neighbor named Mateo (Djimon Hounsou). But we see the story through the eyes of 11-year-old Christy and she makes it all magical. They are struggling, sometimes even desperate and their surroundings are often sordid. Sarah is a teacher and Johnny is an actor, but the only jobs they can get are waitress and cab driver. Johnny (Paddy Considine) and Sarah (Samantha Morton) move to New York with their daughters Ariel and Christy (real-life sisters Emma and Sarah Bolger), still shell-shocked from the loss of their son, Frankie. Screenwriter/director Jim Sheridan ( My Left Foot) tells the story of his family's move to from Ireland to America as something of a fairy tale set in a sweltering and grimy apartment building where even the kind-hearted drug addicts help look out for the children.
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