A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s. "The acting is brilliant across the board, starting with Jude Hill; who really does seem like a nine-year-old Branagh and doesn't have a false moment on screen."--San Francisco Chronicle. "It's hard to resist the movie's affectionate energy."--Time Magazine. "Kenneth Branagh makes a masterful memoir of his tumultuous Irish boyhood....set during the Protestant-Catholic conflicts of the late 1960s, the film is both specific and universal, grand and intimate, sweetly romantic and shockingly violent."--Richard Roeper.