British stars Judi Dench and Steve Coogan are a study in contrasts in Stephen Frears' heartwarming but never banal drama. By THR Staff Stephen Frears is in full possession of his filmmaking talent in ...

Philomena is a 2013 drama movie directed by Stephen Frears. The film tells the story of Philomena Lee, who is an elderly Irish woman. She is searching for her son she was forced to give up decades ago ...

Limerick woman Philomena Lee, whose search to find her adopted son was depicted in the Oscar-nominated film Philomena wants the Government to extend the mother and baby home redress scheme to all ...

You can almost hear the pitch: He’s an arrogant, upper-class journalist who’s suspicious of religion and a master of snarky disdain. She’s a simple old woman, devoutly Catholic and enamored with ...

Whenever Catholics are faced with the very human failures of the institutional church, we must answer a difficult question: Why do we stay? The church is our home, the community in which we encounter ...

I adore, cherish and love, love, love Philomena. This year, which has turned out to have some pretty swell offerings after all, has seen efforts that are technically brilliant (Gravity) and ...

Journalist, author, historian, BBC foreign correspondent and British government adviser Sixsmith was at a low point in his career when he met Philomena Lee, an Irish woman searching for the son who ...

Part road movie and part odd-couple buddy film, Philomena is mainly about having someone live solely in your imagination for 50 years only to experience that person becoming real. It's an ...

It's safe to say Philomena is not the movie the embattled Catholic Church was hoping to see this holiday season. Directed by British filmmaker Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous ...