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Spin the Bottle (2003)
Character: Mrs. Doyle
Rats is released from prison and needs to make some money; fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence; his mother no longer has time for him and his ex-bandmates alike. He wishes to help donate towards his obese aunty's trip to Lourdes. He struggles to find a job, yet never fails to find himself in a difficult situation.
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Anne Devlin (1984)
Character: Mrs Devlin
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.
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Hedda Gabler (1993)
Character: Juliane Tesman
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results
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The Hen House (1989)
Character: Bridie
Lily lives on a remote smallholding in County Donegal. She keeps herself to herself. But a game of hide-and-seek exposes a secret.
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Fools of Fortune (1990)
Character: Mrs Sweeney
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
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Dream On (1991)
Character: Peggy
A magical realist feature drama exploring the lives of a women’s darts team on North Shields’ Meadow Well Estate.
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Dick Francis: Twice Shy (1989)
Character: Mrs. Sullivan
A fool-proof formula for picking winning horses on a computer disc is the Maguffin sought by Cleveland and others.
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Catchpenny Twist (1977)
Character: Mrs. Barker
Roy and Martyn want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision Song Contest. So who thinks they are working for British Army Intelligence? And why has someone sent them two bullets through the post?
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The Outsider (1979)
Character: Mary Russell
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
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The General (1998)
Character: Mrs Duggan
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
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The Commitments (1991)
Character: Unemployment Official
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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The Butcher Boy (1998)
Character: Dublin Cafe Woman
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
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This Is My Father (1999)
Character: Woman Farmer
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland.
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