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Jimmy's hall, producer, Rebecca O'Brien ; writers, Paul Laverty, Donal O'Kelly ; director, Ken Loach

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Rating: PG-13; for language and a scene of violence

Jimmy's hall

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producer, Rebecca O'Brien ; writers, Paul Laverty, Donal O'Kelly ; director, Ken Loach

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In 1921 Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream; but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity its socialist and free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close

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