Movie Review: 'In America'

By Bob Mondello

Published November 24, 2003 at 11:00 PM CST

Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan's latest movie, In America, draws on the filmmaker's own move to the United States. The tale of an Irish family starting over in New York City mixes autobiography and fiction. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.

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Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.

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