Watch: Evelyn 2002 123movies, Full Movie Online – The uplifting movie is based on the true story of the Doyle Family in 1950’s Ireland. Desmond Doyle is abandoned by his wife who runs off to Australia and leaves him with their three small children. He tries his best to continue supporting them singing in the pub and doing painting here and there, only to have the government and child services remove his children stating there has never been a precedent of a Father raising his children without a Mother in the picture. He goes to court, and loses, and is told he cannot appeal his case. He then happily finds a retired lawyer who has taken on constitutional law successfully in the past, who willingly helps him take his case to The Supreme Court..
Plot: Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
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An emotional mess..not the movie, ME!
Possibly you’re a cynic and think the blarney is laid on too abundantly in this movie. Or you might be calling it “O’Kramer vs. O’Kramer” and this isn’t too sappy and predictable to be taken seriously. Well, guess what, it is, and I loved every minute.Pierce Brosnan, who I used to consider a cardboard cut-out of an actor, plays Desmond Doyle. He’s fantastic as a father whose daughter and two sons are removed from their home by the government after their Mother ( in this case, the term can be used in the biological sense only) abandons the family. This being Ireland in the 1950s, there was a law that stated the government can intervene when one parent is found to be insufficient. Desmond has to quit drinking, deal with the death of his father, find a lawyer and rarely see his kids.
Its all okay at the end, and I have to mention that I hope the children’s Mother and a certain Sister Bridget have the thankless job of eating —- in hell for all eternity.
Worth mentioning from the cast is Alan Bates, a hard-drinking consultant to Doyle’s case, and his wishes to hear (or not hear) a ‘however’ from the judges were hilarious.
I had a small problem with the fact that the Mother was not on trial, literally, because it was her abandonment of her family that led to them being separated.
Anyway, its a terrific movie. 8/10.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min), 1 hr 35 min (95 min) (TV) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama
Director Bruce Beresford
Writer Paul Pender
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn
Country United States, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands
Awards 4 wins & 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium, Panavision Primo, C- and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm