‘Small Things Like These’: Read The Screenplay For Cillian Murphy’s First Post-‘Oppenheimer’ Movie
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Small Things Like These, Cillian Murphy’s first film after winning the Oscar for his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture-winning Oppenheimer.
Enda Walsh, the Tony Award-winning Irish playwright and director, adapted the script for the film from Claire Keegan’s 2021 Booker Prize-nominated novel, which was selected as a final Oprah’s Book Club Pick in 2024.
The book itself might seem short at 128 pages, but the story is rich within the context of the silent complicity of Ireland in the 1980s.
The film, directed by Tim Mielants, opened in the U.S. on November 8 after it world premiered earlier in the year as the opening-night film at the Berlin Film Festival.
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