Screeners: Philomena @ Central Library

This Oscar nominated film has received 39 film award nominations and has won over 20 film awards in total. The film stars Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and is based on the book by Martin Sixsmith.

PHILOMENA focuses on the efforts of Philomena Lee (Dench), mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock – something her Irish-Catholic community didn’t have the highest opinion of – and given away for adoption in the United States. In following church doctrine, she was forced to sign a contract that wouldn’t allow for any sort of inquiry into the son’s whereabouts. After starting a family years later in England and, for the most part, moving on with her life, Lee meets Sixsmith (Coogan), a BBC reporter with whom she decides to discover her long-lost son.(description from www.rottentomatoes.com)

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