The movie is about how Lourdes, despite numerous challenges and drawbacks, has a strange, restorative spiritual effect that reconciles them all in epiphanies of love and forgiveness that are not entirely plausible. In the third act, the movie splinters into a series of tearful narratives in which they all pray for their pilgrimage to bring them miracles: Eileen has breast cancer, Lily and Chrissie suffer from traumatic memories that must be resolved, and Dolly (Agnes O’Casey) has a young son named Danny who hasn’t spoken a word, for unexplained reasons known only to the director, Thaddeus O’Sullivan. In the film’s only attempt at irony or humor, Lourdes is revealed as a rather embarrassing tourist attraction, replete with a “Hotel Bernadette” that features a gift shop for souvenirs of the Virgin Mary.Ĭhrissie is forced to share a room with the ladies who have made her homecoming wretched, which makes no sense, but affords them all a contrived chance to confront their true feelings.
On the pilgrimage to Lourdes, Chrissie’s late mother’s three best friends-Eileen, Lily, and a younger woman named Dolly-board the bus with hope and anticipation, but Chrissie, who looks on the entire adventure as a religious joke, goes along too, out of guilt for ignoring her mother’s love for 40 years. The first prize is two tickets to Lourdes chaperoned by the local priest. Everyone, it seems, is going to a talent show charity benefit in her mother’s honor. Starring: Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith, Stephen ReaĬhrissie Ahearn (played by a miscast but nevertheless distinguished Laura Linney, in another noble, polished performance) returns home for her mother’s funeral, chagrined to discover the chapel is empty. Written by: Jimmy Smallhorne, Timothy Prager, Joshua D. Set in a seaside town near Dublin in 1967, it centers on a disparate group of women who travel to Lourdes to honor a friend and the various ways the spiritual influence of the trip changes them forever.
Sweet and well-intentioned but bland and disappointing, The Miracle Club is one of those slow, meandering Irish dramas that inspire more respect than excitement. Laura Linney, Maggie Smith and Niall Buggy (from left) in ‘The Miracle Club.’ Sony Pictures Classics
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