“I thought very carefully approximately what my first Irish film would be,”Saoirse Ronan told an appreciative Alice Tully corridor audience at Wednesday night’s screening of Brooklyn. The 21-year-old New York City native and star (Atonement, The Lovely Bones) chose well with John Crowley’s elegiac romance, or adapted by Nick Hornby (Wild) from Colm Toíbín’s novel. Fox Searchlight picked up the film at Sundance for a icy $9 million and plans to release it in November.
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Source: deadline.com