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product_id: 1871499
title: "Philomena"
brand: "judi denchsteve cooganstephen frears"
price: "$17.47"
currency: USD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 9
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region: United States of America
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# Philomena

**Brand:** judi denchsteve cooganstephen frears
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## Description

When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) was sent to the convent to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless spent the next fifty years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was searching for her from across the Atlantic.

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Comedy, Drama
- **Format:** Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen
- **Contributor:** Judi Dench, Stephen Frears, Steve Coogan
- **Initial release date:** 2013-11-27
- **Language:** English

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## Customer Reviews

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    Sadness of parenthood
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 24, 2023*

The movie starts a little melancholy and turns bittersweet. Really touching for those who are or yearn to be parents. Not sure why it's labeled "comedy". Acting was good and touched on a lot of contemporary topics. Well done drama and was surprised that it has some real basis, though events are sadly believable.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Listed under Comedy but not a comedy.
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2023*

Out-of-work reporter helps old lady find out what happened to her son who she had when a teenager.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    heart warming movie
  

*by H***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2016*

This movie deserves Oscar all star winner. It was just nominated 4 awards. Philomena(Judi Dench) is the name of the English woman who was grown in a convent by nuns. When she was 16, she got pregnant and the nuns treated her as a sinner, took away her child, sold him to America. After 50 years, she is desperate to find her adopted son and her daugher meets this journalist (Steve Googan) who usually writes other matters rather than human stories but finally decides to help her finding her son/ write a story about what happened back then. There are severel or many of the same or similar stories already made from Europe but none of them touched me this deep. Only Stephen Frears –FLORENCE Foster JENKINS, THE QUEEN, MRS HENDERSON PRESENT- can be possible made this emotionally so touching drama. Also Judi Dench once and for all deserves an Oscar winner for sure. She was not flamboyant or cried or shout or anything but she was so very herself all into the character. I was even wanted to see this movie a little more even during the credit is rolling. I wanted to see more of her life! Philomena’s life! All of the Stephen Frears’ movies are so delicate and instant classic that you should just have to buy them and collect them. Steve Googan doesn’t believe in god that much. He thinks that they are in some way fraud. When he hears about what happened to Judi Dench, he was so angry and that anger helped her all the way. I felt his justice. When they finally have researched and even meets the lover of the son, they found out that after the son- he was gay and got AIDS- got AIDS, he visited the convent to trace his mother, they all lied by saying she abandoned him and never wanted to meet him. He was even buried in the yard at the convent. They thought that she was a sinner and deserved not to even meet the son even after 50 years apart. May I ask what kind of a sin that she’ve made? Had sex with a boy whom he loved at an early age? Is that it? Is is so against god that she has to let go of him abroad not even knowing that the nuns are selling the baby to America? Not even be able to meet him after he was succeeded –He became a team for the President Regan as a politician– and came back to meet her but they lied that she didn’t wanted to see him ever? Sometimes if the movie is so real, the charactors are so great, as an audience, I become so angry as well at the fact. But how she reacted was, I was wrong. I am happy to know that I finally had a chance to retrace him. Don’t blame the nuns. They did nothing wrong. I was wrong. But for Steve Googan as a man, he couldn’t help becoming so angry. The very old nun still think that she is a sinner and what she did was all right. After everything have been passed, they finally wrote this into a book. It was all revealed into this book. As I said, there are a lot of similar movies dealing with this matter but this movie stands alone so vivid because of the director Stephen Frears. He knows how to cook two actors so well. Judi Dench constantly talks about what she thinks, at the beginning it was kind of tiresome but as time goes by we begin to fall in love with that. Steve Googan, a kind understanding man, a man with responsibility, brave and righteous man. This movie deserves more attention.Where to buy :dvd is 7.00$ , bluray is 8.59$ , Korea dvd is 20$ART: 96/100 STORY 97/100 BOXOFFICE/FUN 95/100 MUSIC 96/100 ACTING 97/100 DIRECTING 97/100 SEXUALITY na/100 ACTION na/100 BLOOD/GORE na/100 CINEMATOGRAPHY 97/100

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