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Tom Hickey is a Actor Irlandais born on 1 january 1944 at Kildare (Irlande)
Tom Hickey (born 1944) is an Irish actor who has appeared on stage and screen in a career that began in the early 1960s. He is, perhaps, best known for playing Benjy Riordan in the long-running television series, The Riordans.
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What Richard Did (2012)
, 1h27Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Genres Drama
Actors Jack Reynor, Lars Mikkelsen, Lorraine Pilkington, Michelle Doherty, Pádraic Delaney, Peter Coonan
Roles Priest
Rating62%
Richard Karlsen is the golden-boy athlete, very intelligent and undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of Dublin south side teenagers. Everything is perfect for Richard until one drunken summer night he destroys it all, by viciously assaulting a romantic rival. The boy’s subsequent death from his injuries shatters the lives of Richard and the people closest to him.
Stella Days (2012)
, 1h44Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama
Actors Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea, Amy Huberman, Trystan Gravelle, Tom Hickey, Hugh O'Conor
Roles Bishop Hegarty
Rating58%
Dans les années 1950, Borrisokane , village reculé dans le Comté de Tipperary en Irlande, voit sa vie changer avec le retour sur ses terres du père Daniel Barry (Martin Sheen) après vingt ans passés aux États-Unis. Passionné par le cinéma, ce dernier souhaite ouvrir une salle de projection dans le village : le « Stella ». Commence alors un conflit entre l'église conservatrice et novatrice.
Alarm (2008)
, 1h45Directed by Gerry Stembridge
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ruth Bradley, Aidan Turner, Tom Hickey
Roles Frank
Rating55%
After witnessing the murder of her father by burglars, Molly is living with friends and seeing a psychiatrist (Emmet Bergin) to deal with her panic attacks. She dreams of finding a house where she can live alone. Upon buying her dream house in a Dublin suburb, she gives a house-warming party and one of her friends brings along an old classmate of Molly's, Mal. Molly had fancied Mal during school, and now they become a couple. With a new house and a new boyfriend, things seem perfect.
Garage (2007)
, 1h25Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Anne-Marie Duff, Pat Shortt, Emma Lung, George Costigan, John Keogh, Don Wycherley
Roles Mr Skerrit
Rating70%
Josie (Pat Shortt) is a good-natured man with learning difficulties who lives and works at a garage in a small rural Irish village. The owner, Mr Gallagher, is a former schoolmate who is not interested in the garage and is only waiting for the right offer from developers so he can sell. For Josie, one day rolls into another with nothing but his menial job and a few pints in the local pub, even though the regulars mock him and his ways. Kind-hearted Josie's only other companion is a large horse that is tethered alone in a field. He talks to the animal and brings it food.
Breakfast on Pluto (2006)
, 2h9Directed by Neil Jordan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, Conflit nord-irlandais, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Cillian Murphy, Ruth Negga, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Gavin Friday
Roles Bishop
Rating71%
The film is divided in over 30 chapters. In the fictional Irish town of Tyrellin, near the border of Northern Ireland in the late 1940s, cartoon robins narrate as Patrick Braden's mother, Eily Bergin, abandons him on the doorstep of the local parochial house where his father, Father Liam, lives. He is then placed with an unloving foster mother. Biologically male, a young Patrick is later shown donning a dress and lipstick, which angers his foster family. Patrick is accepted by his close friends Charlie, Irwin, and Lawrence, as well as by Lawrence's father, who tells Patrick Eily looked like blonde American movie star Mitzi Gaynor.
Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
, 1h44Directed by Damien O'Donnell
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, Alan King, Brenda Fricker, Gerard McSorley
Roles Con O'Shea
Rating76%
Michael Connolly is a 24-year-old with cerebral palsy who is a long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled run by the formidable Eileen. His life, mundane and schedule-driven by the institution's authorities, is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, suddenly moves in. Michael is stunned to discover that fast talking Rory, prone to lewd and/or overt jokes at unpredictable intervals, and who can move only his right hand, can understand his almost unintelligible speech. Rory's dynamic and rebellious nature soon sparks a flame in Michael, introducing him to the wider world outside of Carrigmore.
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004)
, 1h50Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Bono, Simon Williams, Jillian Armenante, Edward Asnere, Stephanie Beacham, Helen Baxendale
Rating64%
Headrush (2003)
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Steven Berkoff, Moira Deady, Tom Hickey, Gavin O'Connor, Laura Pyper, Rachel Rath
Roles Malcom Nobel
Rating57%
Down on his luck Charlie has been kicked off the dole, had his electricity cut off, and been dumped by his girlfriend Vicky. Despite claiming to be an expert on women, his best friend T-Bag has never had a girlfriend and the boys are convinced only money will change their depressing situation. The boys hear through their dealer Blowback that The Uncle is looking for new drug mules, so Charlie conceives an elaborate scam to smuggle a consignment of Cocaine back from Amsterdam. They meet The Uncle's nephew Razor Rupert and convince him that they're up for the job. As they lay their plans, each one egging the other on, each one refusing to admit to any fear, a series of comic coincidences begin to unravel their carefully laid plans.
Coney Island Baby (2003)
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Karl Geary, Laura Fraser, Hugh O'Conor, Andy Nyman, Tom Hickey
Roles Mr. Hayes
Rating60%
After spending time in New York, Billy Hayes returns to his hometown. He wants to get back together with his ex-girlfriend and take her back to America in hopes of opening up a gas station. But everything isn't going Billy's way - the townspeople aren't happy to see him, and his ex-girlfriend is engaged and pregnant. Then, Billy runs into his old friends who are planning a scam.
Possession (2002)
, 1h42Directed by Neil LaBute
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Aaron Eckhart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey, Toby Stephens
Roles Blackadder
Rating62%
A fictional story of literary scholars American Roland Mitchell (Aaron Eckhart) and British Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), who independently find that the socially antagonistic relationship between the Victorian era poets Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam) and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle) may have concealed a secret connection as lovers. Ash is traditional and conservative and LaMotte is a freethinking bisexual. Rival scholars become aware of their efforts and each seeks to be the first at the public disclosure of this major finding about the poets. In a parallel relationship, Mitchell and Bailey have their own deepening connection.
The Last September (2000)
, 1h43Directed by Deborah Warner
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hickey, David Tennant, Lambert Wilson
Roles O'Brien
Rating59%
Preface Although The Last September was first published in 1929, a preface was written for this text decades later to be included in the second American edition of this novel. Concerned that readers unfamiliar with this particular chapter of Anglo-Irish history would not fully comprehend the anxieties of these times, Bowen takes great pains to explain the particulars of both her writing process and the political reasons for the unsettled atmosphere felt throughout the text, palpable even in its most seemingly serene moments. Of all her books, Bowen notes, The Last September is "nearest to my heart, [and it] had a deep, unclouded, spontaneous source. Though not poetic, it brims up with what could be the stuff of poetry, the sensations of youth. It is a work of instinct rather than knowledge—to a degree, a ‘recall’ book, but there had been no such recall before.” While Bowen's own beloved family home, Bowen's Court, remained untouched throughout "The Troubled Times" this preface explores the ramifications for witnesses of “Ambushes, arrests, captures and burning, reprisals and counter-reprisals” as "The British patrolled and hunted; the Irish planned, lay in wait, and struck.” "I was the child of the house from which Danielstown derives" Bowen concludes, “nevertheless, so often in my mind's eye did I see it [Bowen’s Court] burning that the terrible last event in The Last September is more real than anything I have lived through.”
The Butcher Boy (1998)
, 1h50Directed by Neil Jordan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about virginity
Actors Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Seán McGinley, Ian Hart, Brendan Gleeson
Roles Gardener
Rating70%
The film is set Ireland in the early 1960s in the small town of Clones. Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) is a 12-year-old boy whose imagination is fuelled by television - aliens, communists, the Atomic Age. When his mother (Aisling O'Sullivan) suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately commits suicide, he is left in the care of his father (Stephen Rea), an emotionally distant and ill-tempered alcoholic. Francie spends most of his time with his best friend Joe Purcell (Alan Boyle) talking about "gangsters, cowboys and Indians, comic-book monsters and the early-1960s threat of nuclear annihilation." However, when Francie's growing conflict with another boy, Phillip Nugent (Andrew Fullerton), and his mother (Fiona Shaw) begins to go too far, he ends up at reform school. Here, he is molested by a priest (Milo O'Shea), and finds solace only in his fantasies about a foul-mouthed Virgin Mary (Sinéad O'Connor). He returns home to find Joe has outgrown him and befriended Phillip Nugent. Before long, his father has drunk himself to death. Faced with being left completely alone in the world, Francie loses his grip on reality and lashes out with uncontrollable brutality, which shocks his provincial hometown.
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
, 1h52Directed by Mike Newell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth, Carol Drinkwater
Roles Freddie Reynalde
Rating58%
In the film's prologue, a hotelier ushers a child into a bomb shelter during the Liverpool Blitz. We see a brief flashback to a woman leaving her baby in a basement surrounded by flickering candles. Before departing from the house, she quickly drops a string of pearls on the child's pillow, twined around a single rose.
Moondance (1995)
, 1h28Directed by Dagmar Hirtz
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rúaidhrí Conroy, Ian Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Brendan Grace, David Kelly, Tom Hickey
Rating59%
Moondance is the coming-of-age tale of two brothers, Patrick and Dominic who have a close relationship and live a care-free life in the countryside of Western Ireland. While their mother (Marianne Faithfull) is often away, travelling around the world, the brothers receive frequent visits from their interfering aunt, Dorothy who believes that Dominic should be receiving an education and that he should be sent to boarding school, for which Patrick doesn't agree. On one of Dorothy's visits, she brings along a young German woman named Anya, who volunteers to help Dominic with his education at home, and that it would also help her practice her English. As Anya continues to spend time with the brothers, Mother later returns home and announces that she is back to stay. She accepts Anya into her home.
Raining Stones (1993)
, 1h30Directed by Ken Loach
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, La précarité
Actors Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Ricky Tomlinson, Tom Hickey, Karen Henthorn, William Ash
Roles Father Barry
Rating72%
Bob, le personnage principal, vit avec sa femme Anne et sa fille Coleen dans une banlieue misérable de Manchester. Lui et son ami Tommy se débrouillent du mieux qu'ils peuvent pour vivre dans la Grande-Bretagne des années Thatcher. Le film dépeint la précarité de la société anglaise à l'époque, en montrant tous les emplois que Bob est forcé d'exercer, allant de la revente de viande au marché noir jusqu'à être vigile dans une discothèque. En dépit de sa situation pour le moins précaire, Bob tient par-dessus tout à acheter une robe de communion neuve pour sa fille, afin de ne pas perdre la face devant le voisinage. Dans ce combat pour la dignité de sa famille, il va prendre de terribles risques, se heurter à la cupidité et à la violence mais aussi redécouvrir la fraternité et la solidarité.