The Brothers McMullen (1995) on Netflix
After their father's funeral, three Irish Catholic brothers share one roof on Long Island. Jack, Barry and Patrick each weigh marriage, family and faith against the lives they want.
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Plot summary
Their father has just died, and their mother tells Barry that she is going back to Ireland to be with Finbar O'Shaughnessy, the man she loved years earlier. Barry and Patrick, the youngest, ask Jack whether they can move into the house he bought from their parents. Jack lives there with his wife Molly, and he is drawn to Ann, someone Barry once dated. Patrick is engaged to Susan and means to end it. Barry wants nothing lasting with anyone until he meets Audrey, and the two clash at first over a rented apartment. All three brothers are Irish Catholic, and each sorts out what he believes about love, sex, marriage and family.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Brothers McMullen was shot on 16mm film and originally cost only $25,000, essentially the price of raw stock and processing.
- Winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival got the film picked up for distribution by 20th Century Fox, and it grossed $10.4 million at the US and Canadian box office.
- According to Tom Rothman, The Brothers McMullen was the first film ever released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, the label he started at 20th Century Fox to release Independent, Dramedy, Foreign and Arthouse films.
- Burns saved money on the cast by placing an advertisement in Backstage magazine looking for Irish-American actors willing to work for free.
- The Brothers McMullen grossed $19.3 million worldwide and, on a cost-to-return ratio, was the most profitable film of the year.
