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Nora
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56/100
Every rating
Sharply split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 38, highest is Metacritic critics on 70. Critics average 70, everyone else 53.
See the most contested films →In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?
Details
- Director
- Pat Murphy
- Writers
- Gerard Stembridge, Pat Murphy
- Studio
- Natural Nylon Entertainment
- Released
- 5 April 2000
- Country
- Germany, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 106 min
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