Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Glassland [videorecording] / Film Movement and Element Pictures in association with Nine Entertainment and Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board present ; executive producers, Andrew Lowe, Gerard Barrett ; produced by Ed Guiney, Juliette Bonass ; written and directed by Gerard Barrett.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : Film Movement ; Prince Frederick, MD : Distributed by RB Media, c2016.

Description:

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

John lives with his mother, Jean, in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager existence as a taxi driver. After finding his mother unconscious from yet another night of binge drinking, John learns that without treatment, she will not have much longer to live. Desperate to save their broken family, he offers his services to a petty criminal in order to pay for Jean's costly rehab treatment, but this decision runs the risk of changing their lives forever.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated by the MPAA.

Series:

Film Movement series

Film Movement series.

Subjects:

Mothers and sons -- Drama.

Taxicab drivers -- Drama.

Human trafficking -- Drama.

Alcoholism -- Drama.

Dublin (Ireland) -- Drama.

Genre: