Into the West (film)
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| Into the West | |
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| Directed by | Mike Newell |
| Written by | Jim Sheridan |
| Starring | Gabriel Byrne Ellen Barkin Ruaidhri Conroy Ciaran Fitzgerald David Kelly |
| Music by | Patrick Doyle |
| Distributed by | Miramax Family Films |
| Release date(s) | 1992 |
| Running time | 97 min. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Into the West is a 1992 film about Irish Travellers, directed by Mike Newell and written by Jim Sheridan. Music by Patrick Doyle. Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ruaidhri Conroy, Ciaran Fitzgerald, David Kelly, Colm Meaney, Johnny Murphy, John Kavanagh and Brendan Gleeson.
Into the West is a film about two young boys, Tayto (Conroy) and Ossie (Fitzgerald), whose father (Byrne) was 'King of the travellers' until his wife, Mary, dies during the birth of their second son, Ossie. The boy's Grandfather (David Kelly) is an old story telling traveller, who regales the children with Irish folk-tales and Legends. When he is followed by a beautiful white horse called Tír na nÓg (meaning "Land of Eternal Youth" in Irish Gaelic), from the sea to Dublin, where the boys and their Father now live, the boys are overwhelmed with joy and the dreams of becoming cowboys. The horse is stolen from them and they begin their adventure to get their mystical horse back. They escape the degradation of the Ballymun Council Flats, Into The West where they find that Tír na nÓg is not just any horse.
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