PHILOMENA

Movie:  Philomena
Jan's Rating:  A
Time:  1 hour 38 Minutes

Jan's Opinion:  Yesterday was my sister Judy's 70th birthday so we went to lunch and a movie to celebrate. We saw "Philomena" and we both loved it.  Philomena, played by Judi Dench, was an Irish Catholic and had gotten pregnant out of wedlock when she was a teenager.  She was sent to live with the nuns to have her baby, then had to stay for four years to work off the cost of living and giving birth there.  The nuns sold her baby and she spent years looking for him.  She hired a man played by Steve Coogan to help her find her son and most of the movie is centered around their mission to find her child, now 50 years old.  It was well done and thoroughly enjoyable, so I recommend you see if if you haven't already.