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This weekend, The Miracle Club\u2019s redemption-seeking pensioners will take on Paw Patrol\u2019s superpowered puppies at the box office.<\/p>\n
Pairing a film aimed at kiddies with one made for biddies (sorry) could make for another riotously inappropriate double bill.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a Sunday afternoon TV feel to early scenes of The Miracle Club, which whisks viewers back to 1967 Ireland.<\/p>\n
In this Dublin suburb, kids can play safely in the streets, pictures of flamenco dancers adorn the walls and menfolk are thrown into a moral panic when asked to peel a spud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But three women are determined to abandon their useless husbands to take a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the Catholic shrine where nuns dunk the faithful in disease-curing waters.<\/p>\n
Eileen (Kathy Bates) is worried about a lump in her breast. Lily (Dame Maggie Smith) sports one built-up shoe and a heart shattered by the death of a son.<\/p>\n
Kindly 20-something Dolly (Agnes O\u2019Casey) is praying the blessed spring
will make her mute little boy utter his
first words.<\/p>\n
Chrissie (Laura Linney) has a more mysterious reason to board the charabanc. She has just returned to Ireland from Boston, 40 years after being banished for falling pregnant by Lily\u2019s
now-dead son.<\/p>\n
Eileen, slightly implausibly, was once Chrissie\u2019s best friend (Bates is 16 years older than Linney) but, like Lily, she still harbours a puzzling resentment for this poor woman.<\/p>\n
It will probably come as no surprise to learn that the miracle involves compassion.<\/p>\n
But you may find it jarring to see issues like abortion, misogyny and suicide drenched in such a deep well of sentimentality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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