Shane ConnaughtonFilmography

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Tara Road

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Stephen Rea, Iain Glen, Jean-Marc Barr, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, and Stephen Rae star in this bittersweet tale of two grieving women connected by an accidental phone call. Connecticut mother Marilyn Vine (MacDowell) has always lived a charmed life, so when her adolescent son Dale suddenly dies while celebrating his fifteenth Read More

2005
The Blackwater Lightship

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Angela Lansbury, Dianne Wiest, Gina McKee, Keith McErlean, Sam Robards

Synopsis: This Hallmark Hall of Fame offering stars Keith McErlean as Declan, a 30-year-old Irishman who is dying of AIDS. Remembering how he and his sister Helen (Gina McKee) once stayed with their grandmother Dora (Angela Lansbury) during their fathers' terminal illness, Declan concludes that Dora's place Read More

2004
The Run of the Country

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Albert Finney, Matt Keeslar, Victoria Smurfit, Anthony Brophy

Synopsis: One of two 1995 films from British director Peter Yates that shared strong thematic and story similarities (the other was Roommates), this drama intertwined political and generational conflict for an unusual tale of teen romance in Ireland. Albert Finney stars as a policeman in a tiny, boring Read More

1995
O Mary This London

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Barry, Oba Seagrave, Dylan Tighe

Synopsis: In this intense, multi-layered British drama, the lives of three Irish young people living in London are painstakingly examined. The film's realistic presentation of London and all it's problems is notable. The profiled three are friends, Mickey, Mary, and Bimbo. They came to London from Dublin Read More

1994
The Playboys

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright Penn, Milo O'Shea, Alan Devlin

Synopsis: Gillies MacKinnon directed this charming Irish romance, taking place in a small Irish village in 1957, just before the first television set makes an appearance in this conservative hamlet. There is a scandal in the village concerning the beautiful and independent Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) Read More

4/22/92
The Miracle

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Donal McCann, Niall Byrne, Lorraine Pilkington, J.G. Devlin

Synopsis: Neil Jordan's lyrical Irish romance takes place in the small seaside town of Bray (near Dublin) and concerns two teenage friends, Jimmy (Niall Byrne) and Rose (Lorraine Pilkington). They spend their days roaming the cobblestone streets and waterlogged piers. To while away the time, Rose and Jimmy Read More

7/3/91
Murder in Eden

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: As the title of this British miniseries indicates, Murder in Eden had very little to do with the Old Testament. The central character was an Irish pub owner, who, in a fit of anger, killed his barman. Though convinced that he had covered up his tracks, the pub owner found himself being blackmailed Read More

1991
My Left Foot

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Ruth McCabe, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Conor

Synopsis: An alternative to the general run of "triumph over the odds" biopics, My Left Foot is the true story of Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown. Paralyzed from birth, Brown (played by Hugh O'Conor as child and Daniel Day-Lewis as an adult) is written off as retarded and helpless. But Christy's Read More

11/10/89
Four Days in July

Actors: Brid Brennan, Desmond McAleer, Charles Lawson, Paula Hamilton, Shane Connaughton

Synopsis: The setting of Mike Leigh's Four Days in July is Belfast in the mid-'80s, just before the annual July 12th march of The Orangemen to celebrate the 17th century victory of the Protestant William of Orange over the Catholic King John II. Two couples prepare to have their first child. Collette (Brid Brennan Read More

1984
Every Picture Tells a Story

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Phyllis Logan, Alex Norton, Leonard O'Malley, John Docherty, Mark Airlie

Synopsis: The British Every Picture Tells a Story is a tribute by James Scott to his father and grandfather. Alex Norton plays the eldest Scott, who after World War I service moves his family to Northern Ireland. Securing work as a painter, Scott invites his son to help him on the job. The boy shows genuine Read More

1984
Six Days of Justice

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Six Days of Justice was the modest title applied to this weekly British anthology series, which ultimately tallied up 24 50-minute episodes. Each of these illustrated the workings of British jurisprudence by dramatizing actual cases from various Magistrates' courts. Individual episode titles Read More

1972

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Shane ConnaughtonFilmography

Tara Road

The Blackwater Lightship

The Run of the Country

O Mary This London

The Playboys

The Miracle

Murder in Eden

My Left Foot

Four Days in July

Every Picture Tells a Story

Six Days of Justice

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