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* FanService: The family arrives in New York during a very hot summer so Paddy Considine spends about half an hour running around in vests and tank tops while Samantha Morton gets a big ShesGotLegs scene.
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* FanService: The family arrives in New York during a very hot summer so Paddy Considine spends about half an hour running around in vests and tank tops while Samantha Morton gets a big ShesGotLegs LegFocus scene.
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The story is told from the perspective of Christy Sullivan (Bolger), a ten-year-old Irish girl whose family emigrates to America for a fresh start. She and her younger sister Ariel (played by Bolger's real life sister Emma) have recently lost their baby brother Frankie to a brain tumour and the family is struggling to cope. Navigating the hardships of their new life in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and a growing friendship with an African man called Mateo (Honsou) who lives in their building, help the family to grow and move past the tragedy.
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The story is told from the perspective of Christy Sullivan (Bolger), a ten-year-old Irish girl whose family emigrates to America for a fresh start. She and her younger sister Ariel (played by Bolger's real life sister Emma) have recently lost their baby brother Frankie to a brain tumour and the family is struggling to cope. Navigating the hardships of their new life in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and a growing friendship with an African man called Mateo (Honsou) (Hounsou) who lives in their building, help the family to grow and move past the tragedy.
tragedy.
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Set in 1982, the story is told from the perspective of Christy Sullivan (Bolger), a ten-year-old Irish girl whose family emigrates to America for a fresh start. She and her younger sister Ariel (played by Bolger's real life sister Emma) have recently lost their baby brother Frankie to a brain tumour and the family is struggling to cope. Navigating the hardships of their new life in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and a growing friendship with an African man called Mateo (Honsou) who lives in their building, help the family to grow and move past the tragedy.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Played with. Sarah getting pregnant and bringing a new baby into the family does help them get over Frankie but their issues are resolved through other means and Johnny does point out the difficulties another child would bring to the family.
* BadBadActing: Averted. Johnny has trouble getting roles because he can longer express proper emotions in his acting.
* BadBadActing: Averted. Johnny has trouble getting roles because he can longer express proper emotions in his acting.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Played with. Sarah getting pregnant and bringing a new baby into the family does help them get over Frankie Frankie, but their issues are resolved through other means means, and Johnny does point out the difficulties another child would bring to the family.
* BadBadActing: Averted. Johnny has trouble getting roles because he can longer express proper emotions in his acting. We don't see too much of him in action, outside of brief snippets of auditions but, as they're for theatre, obviously different skills are required.
* BadBadActing: Averted. Johnny has trouble getting roles because he can longer express proper emotions in his acting. We don't see too much of him in action, outside of brief snippets of auditions but, as they're for theatre, obviously different skills are required.
* ChekhovsGun: As Sarah gets to know Mateo and his past, she at one point says "you were rich", and he gives her a look (as if possibly to hint that it's not a past tense thing). [[spoiler: He ends up covering Sarah's extensive hospital bill right before he dies]].
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* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Averted -- when Christy tries to perform CPR on Mateo after he falls down the stairs at their apartment building, the other residents warn her away because they know Mateo is HIV-positive. HIV transmission vectors were not well understood in the early 80's, and even Ariel is worried that Christy will "get Mateo's disease" because she "kissed" him.
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* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Averted -- when Averted. Mateo falls down the stairs, and Christy tries attempts to perform CPR on Mateo after he falls down him; saying she'd done the stairs at their apartment building, the other residents warn same to her away late brother. Everyone warns her away, either because they know Mateo is HIV-positive. HIV transmission vectors were not well understood in the early 80's, and even Ariel is worried that Christy will "get Mateo's disease" because she "kissed" him.HIV-positive or they're afraid she'll hurt him by doing it wrong.
* InformedFlaw: Ariel at one point complains that Christy never plays with her and only speaks to her camcorder. Every other scene between the sisters shows them playing together, and Christy never once shuns Ariel or wants to be left alone.
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* MagicalNegro: Mateo is a bit of a {{Reconstruction}}. He is very spiritual and helps the family out but [[spoiler: is actually dying of an illness]] and is deeply depressed over losing his own wife and son. Johnny initially resents him for being a better father figure to the girls but ultimately the relationship with him helps the family for the better.
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* MagicalNegro: Mateo is a bit of a {{Reconstruction}}. He is very spiritual and helps the family out but [[spoiler: is actually dying of an illness]] and is deeply depressed over losing his own wife and son. Johnny initially resents him for being a better father figure to the girls but ultimately the relationship with him helps the family for the better. [[spoiler: His money also helps the family with Sarah's hospital bill]].
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* MouthyKid: Ariel's attitude is not unlike a nagging old woman.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Despite being GoodParents, Johnny and Sarah are shown to be realistically flawed human beings. Both are grieving for a child, and trying to cope with life in a new country.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: The O'Sullivans have another baby to function as one for the deceased Frankie (although it's a girl). Especially notable is Christy's guilt for not being able to save Frankie, and she gets the chance to help her new sister live with a blood transfusion]].
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* WiseBeyondHerYears: Christy is only ten but is knowledgeable about transvestites, how babies are conceived and how to perform CPR. She also bravely allows herself to be used for a blood transfusion so that her baby sister can live. Part of this may be a remnant of the character being written to be a couple of years older.
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* MondegreenGag: Ariel thinks ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' goes "Jose can you see", but Christy corrects her.
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* MondegreenGag: Ariel thinks ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' goes "Jose "José can you see", but Christy corrects her.
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* {{Mondegreen}}: Ariel thinks ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' goes "Jose can you see", but Christy corrects her.
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* {{Mondegreen}}: MondegreenGag: Ariel thinks ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' goes "Jose can you see", but Christy corrects her.
