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En América
In America
Jim Sheridan (Irlanda, Reino Unido; 2002) [Color, 105 min]



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[fuente] Una familia irlandesa emigra a Nueva York, donde el padre sueña con triunfar como actor en el mundo del espectáculo. Llenos de ilusión, se alojan en un destartalado apartamento de Manhattan, en un barrio lleno de yonquis y travestis; pero, mientras intentan adaptarse a su nueva vida, la familia no puede evitar el recuerdo de la pérdida de uno de sus hijos.

Irregular y demasiado blanda, pero merece la pena echar un vistazo a la mirada semi-autobiográfica de Sheridan sobre el fracaso en el intento de abordar el "sueño americano".

Ángel Fernández Santos, en El País, escribió:Magnífico film lírico atravesado por vivísimos saltos del humor al pathos, del gozo al dolor. (...) Es un relato intimista muy ágil y conmovedor, noble y libre (...) paisaje urbano de Manhattan distinto a todos los vistos, inédito. Maravilloso escenario para una honda historia viva y ávida.

En SensaCine se escribió:Después de haber permanecido por espacio de unos días en Canadá, la familia Sullivan viaja hasta Manhattan, en el corazón de Nueva York, donde tratarán de iniciar una nueva vida. A pesar de encontrarse con un barrio lleno de prostitutas, travestis y drogadictos, Sarah y Johnny Sullivan, junto a sus hijas Christy y Ariel, esperan que su suerte cambie tras la muerte de Jackie. Víctima de un tumor cerebral, Jackie falleció durante su infancia en Irlanda, la patria de los Sullivan. Para costear los gastos generados por el alquiler de un vetusto apartamento y para cubrir las necesidades primarias, Johnny busca trabajo como intérprete teatral mientras que Sarah se emplea en una pizzería. Marginados por su condición de emigrantes de extracción social baja en la escuela católica donde cursan sus estudios, tanto Christy, la mayor, como Ariel traban amistad con un vecino afroamericano llamado Mateo, a quien no tardarán en diagnosticar una enfermedad terminal, al igual que había acontecido con el pequeño Jackie.

AMG SYNOPSIS: After chronicling various chapters of Irish history in such films as In the Name of the Father and The Field, writer/director Jim Sheridan turns his lens upon his own family's experiences immigrating to the United States in the aptly titled In America. The loosely autobiographical script centers on Johnny (Paddy Considine), a young actor sneaking his wife, Sarah (Samantha Morton), and daughters, Christy and Ariel (real-life sisters Sarah and Emma Bolger, respectively), over the Canadian border in the hopes of jump-starting his career in New York City. They soon find that America is not the land of boundless opportunity, however, as they move into a dank, dilapidated apartment building populated by drug dealers, transients, and thugs. Johnny doesn't snag auditions as easily as he may have hoped, and he and Sarah are forced to take meager jobs after spending their savings on food, rent, and utilities. Still in grief over the untimely death of their toddler son back in Ireland, the couple find their relationship further strained by the pressures of life in the city. Little by little, however, things begin to look up for the fiercely protective family unit, especially when they befriend an eccentric artist neighbor named Mateo (Djimon Hounsou). In America saw its world premiere at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival and played to enthusiastic crowds at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival before its theatrical release in the fall of that year. -- Michael Hastings

AMG REVIEW: Over the course of four unflinching portraits of stubborn, headstrong Irish antiheroes -- My Left Foot, The Field, In the Name of the Father, and The Boxer -- no one could ever accuse writer/director Jim Sheridan of viewing the past through rose-colored glasses. That is, until In America, the filmmaker's effective but sentimental account of one family's not-so-legal immigration to New York City. No matter how many incidents in Sheridan's semi-autobiographical script are purportedly true-to-life, as presented, many of them seem unbelievable, among them: that two parents would let their daughters freely roam the halls of their seedy, drug-addict-infested tenement building; that a father would wager his family's savings on a carnival game; and that an unlikely benefactor would rescue said family from financial ruin. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- these implausibilities, In America plays more along the lines of sweet-natured fable than gritty family drama, an observation only enhanced by the film's scene-stealing pair of child actors, sisters Sarah and Emma Bolger. As the not-so-sensible parents, Paddy Considine is alternately endearing and infuriating, and Samantha Morton inappropriately seethes for most of the film's running time. Sheridan intermittently finds the right tone for the material -- wistful, bittersweet nostalgia -- but one can't help but think that if he had been more in tune with his impish daughter characters, In America would have been classic instead of just fine. -- Michael Hastings

Otras referencias
- "EN AMÉRICA, de Jim Sheridan. Sobrevivir en Nueva York", por Javier Castro. Miradas de Cine.
- En America (2002) de Jim Sheridan. El Criticón.

Guión: Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan.
Fotografía: Declan Quinn (Color).
Música: Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer.
Producción: Arthur Lappin, Jim Sheridan, Paul Myler, Nye Heron.
Productora: Fox Searchlight Pictures (presents) / Hell's Kitchen Films / East of Harlem (UK) Ltd. / Harlem Film Productions Ltd. / Irish Film Industry.

• Samantha Morton (Sarah Sullivan).
• Paddy Considine (Johnny Sullivan).
• Sarah Bolger (Christy Sullivan).
• Emma Bolger (Ariel Sullivan).
• Djimon Hounsou (Mateo).
• Adrian Martinez (Shopkeeper).
• Bernadette Quigley (Hospital Administrator).
• Bob Gallico (Theatre Director).
• Chary O'Dea (Mexican Woman With Child).
• Ciaran Cronin (Frankie Sullivan).
• David Wike (Barker).
• Des Bishop (Stockbroker In Taxi).
• Eilish Scanlon (Nun Playing Piano).
• Elaine Grollman (Nun On School Steps).
• Frank Wood (Paediatrician).
• Gabriela Quintero Lopez (Mexican Woman Guitarist).
• Guy Carleton (Man At Fair).
• Jason Killalee (assistant theatre director).
• Jason Salkey (Tony).
• Jennifer Seifert (Angela).
• Jer O'Leary (Thomas Bakewell).
• Juan Hernández (Papo).
• Kathleen King (Prize-Giving Nun).
• Merrina Millsapp (Marina).
• Michael Sean Tighe (Frank).
• Molly Glynn (Sarah Mateo).
• Neal Jones (Immigration Officer).
• Nick Dunning (Gynaecologist).
• Nye Heron (Blind Man).
• Randall Carlton (Immigration Officer).
• Regina Roe (Administrator, Nurse).
• Rene Millan (Steve).
• Rodrigo Pineda Sanchez (Mexican Man Guitarist).
• Sarah James (Papo's Girlfriend).
• Tom Murphy (Actor In Queue).

Tres nominaciones al Oscar (mejor actor de reparto, actriz, guión original) (2003); dos nominaciones al Globo de Oro (mejor canción original, guión) (2003); mejor guión original en el National Board of Review (2003); top 10 de mejores películas del año en el American Film Institute (AFI) (2003); mejor guión, seis nominaciones en el Critics' Choice Awards (2003).

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- [filmo de ficción] Made in Dagenham (2010)
- [filmo de ficción] Saving Grace (2000)
- [filmo de ficción] The Snapper (1993)

- [filmo de ficción] En el nombre del padre (1993)
- [filmo de ficción] The Boxer (1997)