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	evelyn movie review by Jim Eadon
		His young daughter, Evelyn, is doted on, the favourite of both dad and of the movie, is locked up in a nunnery.
		Evelyn's fate is in the hands of a squad of beastly nuns, cold as penguins, lead by the wickedly brutal Bridget.
		Evelyn is not particularly deep, but it is that increasingly rare modern movie aimed at people with a mind and humanity, rather than the MTV droids, which is why I enjoyed it all the more.
	www.eadon.com /movies/evelyn.php (678 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Evelyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Evelyn is a touching drama set in Ireland in 1953 about a man who wants nothing more than to be present in his children's lives.
		Evelyn has her father's spunk along with a deep streak of independence.
		In an audio commentary, actor/director Pierce Brosnan and producer Beau St. Clair reflect on the six years it took to get the film made and why it was worth the time and effort; in a second audio commentary, director Bruce Beresford praises the actors and their work in the film.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_5449.html (617 words)

	YMA Movie Review - Evelyn
		Evelyn is an absorbing, if somewhat emotive drama which deals with the unjust family law that existed in Ireland in the 1950s, when the movie was set.
		This movie is not recommended for children under the age of 8, due to the level of violence and scariness.
		Evelyn speaks out against Sister Bridget for hitting the child whereupon she flies into a rage, drags Evelyn out of the class and hits her violently across the face several times for daring to question her authority.
	www.youngmedia.org.au /mediachildren/07_04/07_04_098_evelyn.htm (1066 words)

	Evelyn : Movie Review
		His participation in Bruce Beresford's Evelyn allows him to slip out of the role that has lately been his bread-and-butter, and get back to the kinds of things he once did.
		Evelyn is a shamelessly uplifting motion picture that attains its feel-good status by forging a deep emotional connection between the undertrodden protagonist and the audience.
		Evelyn bears the "based on a true story" label, but, considering the flow of the narrative, my guess is that only the bare-bones facts remain.
	www.cinema.com /articles/1874/evelyn-movie-review.phtml (188 words)

	Evelyn Movie starring Pierce Brosnan
		In virtually all movies involving fathers parenting their children alone, the mother is conveniently dead.
		Coming from a broken home in Ireland, Brosnan, from the age of six to eleven, was educated in a Catholic boys' school run by strict disciplinarians the Christian Brothers.
		Evelyn is an emotional and uplifting story that is as relevant today as it was fifty years ago.
	www.mensmovieguide.com /Evelyn.htm (517 words)

	Evelyn - Rotten Tomatoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The movie has a script (by Paul Pender) made of wood, and it’s relentlessly folksy, a procession of stagy set pieces stacked with binary oppositions.
		Evelyn may be based on a true and historically significant story, but the filmmakers have made every effort to disguise it as an unimaginative screenwriter's invention.
		Evelyn may be a weightless picture, but it's hardly torture to sit through.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/evelyn (761 words)

	Movie Photos: Evelyn
		Young actress Sophie Vavasseur (left) poses with the real-life Evelyn Doyle, whose childhood served as the inspiration for United Artists' drama Young actress SOPHIE VAVASSEUR (left) poses with the real-life Evelyn Doyle, whose childhood served as the inspiration for United Artists' drama Evelyn in MGM's Evelyn - 2002
		EVELYN, by Bruce Beresford (DRIVING MISS DAISY), is an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story about a legal case that made Irish legal history in the early 1950s.
		The big trial conclusion is the movie at its best as screenwriter Paul Pender gets more mileage than you'd ever believe from the single word "however." I think I will forever remember this movie when I heard that word.
	www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2002_Evelyn_photo.html (776 words)

	Evelyn
		Sister Brigid (Andrea Irvine) is the wicked nun who is Evelyn's nemesis in the orphanage, but the good heart of Sister Felicity (Karen Ardiff), who honestly loves the children in her care, is a balanced counterpoint to the mean doings of "Frigid" Brigid (as the kids in the orphanage call her).
		"Evelyn" is a little movie and probably won't wow them at the box office, but it is a fit film for the holidays with its uplifting tale of one man who fights back against the injustice of the system and wins the custody of his children.
		"Evelyn" is one of those 'based on a true story' uplifting underdog tales that threatens to drown the audience in treacle, but screenwriter Paul Pender and director Beresford offset the kiddies' plight with enough matey jockeying jocularity among the male cast to retain an even keel.
	www.reelingreviews.com /evelyn.htm (1609 words)

	Modamag.com \| Evelyn - Pierce Brosnan (Movie Review)
		Beresford tries to interject various moments of magic into the film, including an aside in which Evelyn can see her dead grandfather’s presence in the twinkily rays of the sun.
		I understand that the film is called “Evelyn,” but there is a bigger story here than just a little girl, with Beresford keeping the film from significance by not keeping an eye on all the dangling subplots.
		“Evelyn” has an amiability that is hard to resist, even though the filmmakers do their best to muck up the purity of heart on display here.
	www.modamag.com /evelyn.htm (393 words)

	Evelyn (2002) Movie Review by Mark Dujsik at The Movie Insider
		Meanwhile, he is tries to hatch plans to free his children, daughter Evelyn (Sophie Vavasseur) and her two brothers (whose names are mentioned once and are therefore unimportant; I guess two boys don’t tug at the heartstrings quite like a little girl).
		The courtroom scenes are interesting and idea-heavy (at least when considering the rest of the movie), so of course, they’re undermined by the convention that everyone in the courtroom must cheer and boo and hiss and gasp when a new revelation is made.
		But this is also a movie in which Henry tells his granddaughter that beams of sunlight are angel rays, and thereafter, whenever a member of the family is in some sort of crisis, he or she is bathed in subtle, angelic backlighting.
	www.themovieinsider.com /reviews/rid/300 (921 words)

	Picturing Justice. Evelyn-Best Legal Movie of 2002? by Michael Asimow
		Apparently Evelyn Doyle sold her story to the movies but was displeased with the script.
		Evelyn's memoir also helps to explain why the Minister's fought the case to the bitter end, rather than yielding custody to Desmond as it had discretion to do under the Family Law Act.
		Evelyn is one of a string of excellent films involving child custody disputes that seek to make a legal or political point.
	www.usfca.edu /pj/evelyn_asimow.htm (1863 words)

	Evelyn - Movie Review
		The most celebrated child custody battle in Irish history is the subject of "Evelyn," a moving but uninspired feel-good drama in which Pierce Brosnan stretches his anti-Bond acting muscles as a struggling carpenter and painter desperately fighting church and state to get his three button-cute kids out of foster care.
		As the opening act of the movie unfolds, Doyle's beloved young children -- two boys and a sweet little girl whose name begot the film's title -- are dragged off to strict orphanage schools run by tyrannical nuns.
		"Evelyn" may be based on fact and its star does get his act together before long, but the script is the stuff of Screenwriting 101.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/evelyn_1 (368 words)

	Evelyn- a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Doyle (Brosnan) is married with three children, the oldest daughter Evelyn (Vavasseur).
		The children miss their father, especially Evelyn, who is wise beyond her years.
		Evelyn tackles complex issues, but, unfortunately, only gives us sanitized answers.
	www.tollbooth.org /2003/movies/evelyn.html (568 words)

	Movie Review - Evelyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Doyle's wife abandons her three children when she leaves him for another man. The church controlled state takes the children away from Doyle and provides no legal means for him to get them back.
		It introduces characters and ideas that are undoubtedly part of the actual story but which can't possibly be completely developed in the time allotted to a movie.
		The single theme that comes through in the movie is the primal desire each of the characters to bond with a parent.
	www.livingonthenet.com /Movies/Evelyn.htm (308 words)

	Movie Review - Evelyn
		Faced with unemployment and no woman in the house, he is forced to relinquish his three children, Evelyn (Sophie Vavasseur), Noel and Brenden, to the authorities.
		Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of life in an orphanage while their father fights for their return.
		American Humane Association did not supervise Evelyn on set in Ireland, but was notified of the production, screened the film and discussed the animal action with the distributor.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=7470 (833 words)

	"Evelyn" ~~ a Movie Review by the Filmiliar Cineaste
		It just goes to prove that any formula for success is elusive and thinking you have a movie with the same elements that proved so effective in the past would garner a repeat.
		Based on a real incident in Irish jurisprudence, the story outlines the case of a father, two sons, a daughter by the name of Evelyn, and a wife who abandons the lot.
		The most egregious of this is the melodramatic appearance of the preposterous "angel rays" -- just when little Evelyn is in the witness box and in need of a little celestial confidence building.
	variagate.com /evelyn.htm (929 words)

	2002 Evelyn - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills
		His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Noel and Brendan, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation.
		EVELYN, by Bruce Beresford (DRIVING MISS DAISY), is an unabashedly schmaltzy and thoroughly enjoyable true story about a legal case that made Irish legal history in the early 1950s.
		The big trial conclusion is the movie at its best as screenwriter Paul Pender gets more mileage than you'd ever believe from the single word "however." I think I will forever remember this movie when I heard that word.
	www.celebritywonder.com /movie/2002_Evelyn.html (647 words)

	Evelyn - DVD Movie Central
		Evelyn is as heartwarming as a movie can get, and the fact that it’s based on a true story makes it all the more uplifting.
		Evelyn, but the movie is indeed about the father’s struggle more than anything else.
		Evelyn is a strong piece of heartwarming storytelling that is perfect family viewing.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/evelyn.htm (688 words)

	Evelyn Movie Review - MovieWeb
		Evelyn is slapped repeatedly by a nun for protesting the beating of one of her classmates.
		Evelyn is a heartwarming and inspirational journey that follows likable people who are forced to dig deep into themselves to find the strength to deal with the difficulties life deals them.
		Though Evelyn is a little too sentimental at times, the film avoids the formulaic pitfalls of similar movies and is really quite enjoyable.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/263612 (802 words)

	Evelyn - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		Evelyn is the story of Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) a hard working laborer who believed the judge who told him, when his four children were taken away, that if he could find stable work and build an economically conducive environment -- drinking discouraged -- that he would get his children back.
		Were there not such a strong male cast, it would be too easy to dump Evelyn into the chick flick category, though there were very few dry eyes in our house.
		Were Cranky able to set his own price to Evelyn, he would have paid.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive02/evelyn.html (442 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Evelyn
		When a nun in an orphanage, Sister Bridgett (Andrea Irvine), beats his daughter, Evelyn (convincingly played by child actor Sophie Vavasseur), he appears at the orphanage to let Sister Bridgett know very clearly that if she ever strikes his daughter again, it will be the last time she ever hits anything.
		Against all odds, Doyle recruits a small, but talented team of lawyers who are willing to take on the power of the state, at the risk of their own careers.
		The legal battle at the center of the film lasts 50 minutes and is highlighted by the testimony of Evelyn (convincingly played by Sophie Vavasseur), Doyle's bright, young daughter.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/old/evelyn.html (773 words)

	Evelyn (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Continuity: When the man from SPCC was speaking with Doyle, a woman behind Doyle hung the same pair of pants on the line twice.
		Evelyn Doyle: No Dermot, he wasn't as lucky as you.
		Played brilliantly by Pierce Brosnan (who was born in Ireland) with Alan Bates taking on the role of the ex-barrister (retired) who changed the course of Irish family history.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0298856 (425 words)

	Irish Dreamtime's Movie Evelyn
		When Evelyn and the grandfather are driving in the car to St. Joseph where Evelyn is to live with the nuns, Evelyn sees the statue of Joseph holding the Christ child.
		Also, when Evelyn gives her testimony, the camera pans away from her and shows the entire court room.
		Evelyn is worth your time, not only because it is rich in artistic details, but also because of a great performance by Pierce Brosnan.
	www.electronicbookshere.com /Pierce_Brosnan/male_actor_Pierce_Brosnan_articles/Evelyn_movie.html (504 words)

	Evelyn News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Evelyn is the true story of a man who challenges the church and state in Ireland in 1953 to wrest his children, including daughter Evelyn, from harsh church institutions after his wife deserts the family.
		Evelyn Doyle's synopsis landed on the desk of a young writer named Paul Pender who saw the cinematic possibilities; when he left the BBC he took the project with him, doggedly trying for more than a dozen years to get a producer interested in his screenplay.
		Evelyn is a sentimental story, but the closest it veers into the realm of treacle is when Evelyn talks about her recently deceased grandfather coming back to her as "angel rays" Ñ shafts of light that fall through the window.
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	Evelyn Movie, Ireland Location Pictures : Kings Inns Dublin
		The movie Evelyn starring Irish actor Pierce Brosnan was filmed on location in Ireland during 2002.
		During the movie the building is the setting for the Irish Supreme Court.
		The movie Evelyn - is set in 1950's Ireland, and based on true events.
	www.irelandposters.com /irish_movies/evelyn.html (197 words)

	Ritz Filmbill: Movie Synopsis: Evelyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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		Desmond’s daughter, Evelyn Doyle, now grown and living in Scotland, also knew an account of her father’s heroism would make a good story, and she was actively trying to get that story heard.
		Finally, a few years ago, when Pender heard Evelyn’s account of her father’s life, the narrative got the push it needed.
	www.ritzfilmbill.com /editorial/synopses/evelyn.shtml (387 words)

	Evelyn Movie: Evelyn DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Evelyn Movie: Evelyn DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Pierce Brosnan stars as Desmond Doyle, an Irishman whose troubles mount after his philandering wife runs away with another man. As a single, unemployed father with a penchant for Dublin's pubs, Doyle is deemed an unfit parent, and his daughter and two younger sons are placed in orphanages.
		Sophie Vavasseur is a scene-stealer as Evelyn, Doyle's oldest child and the film's namesake, and Julianna Margulies adopts a believable accent as the barmaid who inspires Doyle to clean up his act if he wants his family back.
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	Evelyn movie poster at The Z Review movie poster site
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	Evelyn: Movie-Source.com Evelyn Movie, Evelyn Preview, Evelyn Review
		Evelyn, titled after his daughter who is taken away from him by the courts after his wife abandons them (his two sons are also taken, though the movie for some reason pays little attention to them), is a moderately effective drama that basically relies on the goodness of Brosnan.
		Brosnan is good, the story is good, and I really liked the title character (Sophie Vavasseur), but the movie does suffer from some not-so-good performances (Julianna Margulies is nothing to scream about here) and cheesy antics (the reporter outside the courtroom and the rather clichéd ending).
		Evelyn isn't terrific, but it deserves more recognition than it was given, and a wider release than what United Artists decided to do.
	www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=401 (629 words)

	Evelyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		“ Evelyn ” (Sophie Vavasseur) is the daughter of unemployed Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) in the Foreign Drama Movie “ Evelyn ” set in Dublin, Ireland where times are hard for Desmond Doyle and “ Evelyn ” and her two sibling brothers.
		The Foreign Drama Movie chronicles Desmond’s battle and “ Evelyn’s ” anxieties, apprehension, and awareness of the danger to her family unit.
		The Irish Supreme Court landmark decision of the Foreign Drama Movie heralds the true story of “ Evelyn ”, her brothers, and her father Desmond’s battle to reunite as a family.
	www.icmovierentals.com /Evelyn/Evelyn.htm (219 words)

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