Into the West
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mike Newell
Produced by	Jonathan Cavendish Tim Palmer Gabriel Byrne (associate)
Written by	Jim Sheridan David Keating
Starring	Gabriel Byrne Ellen Barkin Ruaidhri Conroy Ciaran Fitzgerald David Kelly
Music by	Patrick Doyle
Cinematography	Newton Thomas Sigel
Editing by	Peter Boyle
Distributed by	Miramax Family Films
Release date(s)	1992[1]
Running time	97 min.
Country	Ireland
Language	English

Into the West is a 1992^[1] film about Irish Travellers, directed by Mike Newell and written by Jim Sheridan. Actors in the film include Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ruaidhri Conroy, Ciaran Fitzgerald, David Kelly, Colm Meaney, Johnny Murphy, John Kavanagh and Brendan Gleeson.

[edit] Plot summary

Into the West is a film about two young boys, Tito (Conroy) and Ossie (Fitzgerald), whose father (Byrne) was "King of the Travellers" until his wife, Mary, dies during the birth of their second son, Ossie. The boys' grandfather (David Kelly) is an old story-telling Traveller, who regales the children with Irish folk-tales and legends. When he is followed by a beautiful white horse called Tír na nÓg (meaning "Land of Eternal Youth" in Irish), from the sea to Dublin, where the boys and their father now live, the boys are overwhelmed with joy and the dreams of becoming cowboys. The horse is stolen from them and they begin their adventure to get their mystical horse back. They escape the poverty of a north Dublin council estate, and "Into the West" where they find that Tír na nÓg is not just any horse.

[edit] External links

• Into the West at the Internet Movie Database
• Into the West at Allmovie

[edit] References

v • d • e Films directed by Mike Newell 1980s The Awakening (1980) · Bad Blood (1981) · Dance with a Stranger (1985) · The Good Father (1985) · Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987) 1990s Enchanted April (1992) · Into the West (1992) · Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) · An Awfully Big Adventure (1995) · Donnie Brasco (1997) · Pushing Tin (1999) 2000s Mona Lisa Smile (2003) · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) · Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) 2010s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

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