Cillian Murphy is following up his Oscar-winning role in Oppenheimer with a new period drama, Small Things Like These, which opens in U.S. theaters this weekend.
Directed by Tim Mielants, with a screenplay by Enda Walsh, Small Things Like These is based on the 2021 historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan. Set in the small, working-class town of New Ross, Ireland in 1985, the story revolves around the true story of Irish Magdalene asylums, which were prisons where “fallen women” (often code for sex workers, or other undesirable women) were forced to live and work washing clothes, as slaves. Cillian Murphy stars as Bill Furlong, a fictional coal merchant who uncovers one of these horrific institutions.
Also starring Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley, Emily Watson, Clare Dunne, and Helen Behan, Small Things Like These sounds like a depressing but fascinating watch.
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