Starring: Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Sarah & Emma Bolger
Director: Jim Sheridan
Country: Ireland, USA
Genre: Independent, Drama

If you aren’t in tears by the end of this film, leave me your number. I want to congratulate you for not having a soul.

There are children who can act, and there are children that can be. The latter is so rare, and it’s exemplified so well in this touching story of an immigrant Irish family and their struggle to make ends meet, (financially and emotionally.) Quite often with these little independent films we’re given a mosaic of melodrama, a barrage of overwrought sentimentalism. In America certainly isn’t always a happy film, but it doesn’t forget to provide the audience with smiles and hope. Because of this, it makes the emotional scenes not only more organic, but more engaging. There are a few breathtaking scenes, and an all-round amazing cast. Independent dramas don’t get much better than this.