Film review: BROOKLYN, from ‘Built For Speed’

Set amid the post-war Irish immigration to America, Brooklyn sees shy, naive young Irish woman Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronin) leave her mother and sister in the small Irish town of Enniscorthy in the early 1950’s to take up a job in a snooty department store in Brooklyn.   Although, miserable and homesick at first, Eilis soon finds love with young Italian

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