The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)

Directors

Jack Clayton

Cast

Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean, Ian McNeice, Prunella Scales

The story

Dublin, the 1950s. Judith Hearne is a lonely, middle-aged, Irish Catholic spinster from a respectable family in distressed circumstances who spent her youth caring for a bossy and unpleasant aunt and as an adult gives piano lessons independently but is losing pupils. After moving into a rooming house in Dublin, she meets and becomes attracted to the landlady's widowed brother, the charming James Madden, who has returned from the United States.

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