New York City
Set in County Mayo, THE COUNTRY BOY is John Murphy’s gripping drama of an emigrant son’s return home. In 1959, after 15 years in America, Eddie?the “Yank”?returns on holiday to his family in Ireland, with an expensive camera in his pocket and an American wife on his arm. But is everything as it appears? Has Eddie fulfilled the emigrant dream or has he returned to prevent his younger brother from making the same mistakes?