Main Cast: Hill Harper, Aislin McGuckin, Pierce Brosnan, Donal McCann, Sinéad Cusack
Release Year: 1998
Country: IE
Run Time: 106 minutes
Plot
Pierce Brosnan produced and co-stars in this Irish family drama, directed by Eugene Brady and set on the island of Inis Dara. Since farmer Tony Egan (Donal McCann) has had no contact with his sister over two decades, he's startled to find she married a black New Yorker and managed a Hell's Kitchen grocery, facts he learns when her son, artist Chad Egan-Washington (Hill Harper of Spike Lee films) arrives on the island to scatter her ashes. A romance between Chad and Aislin (Aislin McGuckin) disturbs her father, bartender Joe Brady (Brosnan), not for racial reasons, but because Joe once had an ill-fated love affair with Chad's mother. Chad's questions dig up other long-buried family secrets and tensions. Shown in the market section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
Niall Toibin - Sean; Phelim Drew - Patsy; Lorraine Pilkington - Rachel; Luke Griffin - Peter
Credit
Cynthia Palormo - Associate Producer, Ros Hubbard - Casting, John Hubbard - Casting, Doug Mayfield - Co-producer, Eugene Brady - Director, J. Patrick Duffner - Editor, Bernie Somers - Executive Producer, Morgan O'Sullivan - Executive Producer, Tom Palmieri - Executive Producer, Marguerite Somers - Executive Producer, Jerry A. Baerwitz - Line Producer, Stephen McKeon - Composer (Music Score), John F. de Cuir, Jr. - Production Designer, Jack Conroy - Cinematographer, Pierce Brosnan - Producer, Beau St. Clair - Producer, Jacqueline O'Neill - Screenwriter, Sean P. Steele - Screenwriter
The Nephew is a 1998 film directed by Eugene Brady, which tells the story of a young biracial American man, Chad Egan-Washington (played by Hill Harper).
Plot
Following the death of his mother, an Irish immigrant, Chad has traveled overseas to the small island community which was his mother's hometown. In addition to facing the initial prejudices of his mother's estranged family, Chad finds himself the unwitting center of an ongoing conflict between his uncle Tony (Donal McCann) and local bar owner Joe Brady (Pierce Brosnan), who have been at loggerheads since Chad's mother left twenty years before. Further complications ensue when Chad develops a relationship with Brady's daughter, as the young and sexy Peter O'Boyce (David Quinn) looks on in disgust and arousal. The young Quinn's character then attempts to stop the ensuing romance, and in doing so, lands himself in some 'mega-trouble'. Romance, the young boy later describes in a thick Rathnew accent, in echo with the film itself, is "an American ting".
