Movie research

Into the west























Director- Mike Newell

Born- 28 March 1942

Other movies directed-
The Awakening (1980)
Bad Blood (1981)
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
The Good Father (1985)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Enchanted April (1992)
Into the West (1992)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time (2010)
The Elfstones of Shannara (TBA)


Main Actors-
Gabriel Byrne
Ellen Barkin
Ruaidhri Conroy
Ciaran Fitzgerald
David Kelly

Movie Plot-
Into the West is a film about two young boys, Tito (Conroy) and Ossie (Fitzgerald), whose father (Byrne) was "King of the Travellers" until his wife, Mary, dies during the birth of their second son, Ossie. The boys' grandfather (David Kelly) is an old story-telling Traveller, who regales the children with Irish folk-tales and legends. When he is followed by a beautiful white horse called Tír na nÓg (meaning "Land of Eternal Youth" in Irish), from the sea to Dublin, where the boys and their father now live, the boys are overwhelmed with joy and the dreams of becoming cowboys. The horse is stolen from them and they begin their adventure to get their mystical horse back. They escape the poverty of a north Dublin council estate, and "Into the West" where they find that Tír na nÓg is not just any horse.