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Small Things Like These

If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore so you can keep on.

Rating 6.7 / 10Release November 1, 2024Runtime 99 min

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

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