The film is set in 1985, and co-stars Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, and Eileen Walsh. Playwright Enda Walsh (“Disco Pigs,” “Hunger”) adapated the script, with “Peaky Blinders” director Tim Mielants directing. The feature premiered at Berlinale 2024; it was later acquired by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions.

Lionsgate has dropped the official trailer and set UK, Ireland and U.S. release dates for Small Things Like These, starring Oscar winner Cillian Murphy

After his Oscar-winning performance in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy is gearing up to grace the screens once again. The actor stars in Small Things Like These, another historical drama, in a role that is starkly different from the one he played in his previous movie.

Cillian Murphy also serves as a producer in the movie, which is based on Claire Keegan’s 2021 novel of the same name.

Lionsgate has shared a poster and trailer for director Tim Mielants’ upcoming drama Small Things Like These. Based on Claire Keegan’s best-selling novel of the same name, the film stars Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy as a devoted father who uncovers disturbing secrets hidden by a convent in his small Irish town,

The Oscar winner plays a hard-working coal merchant and father haunted by Church-sanctioned cruelty in Ireland in the Lionsgate drama that will hit theaters on Nov. 8.

Watch the Small Things Like These trailer. Oscar winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan.