Circle of Friends (1995) - PART 9 (final)

"Circle of Friends", set in 1950's Ireland, centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve re-unite with their childhood friend Nan Mahon, the 'college belle'. They also encounter the handsome and charming Jack Foley, whom Benny quickly falls for.

This movie is one my old favorites, and Minnie Driver's film debut performance in this film is phenomenal. Check out the book by Maeve Binchy; though I have not read the original source, I heard that it is very well-written and less fairytale-like than this one. The DVD of "Circle of Friends" has a widescreen-ish format so if you want to watch the film in better quality, buy the DVD. Otherwise, I hope you enjoyed watching this on YouTube!

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Film & Animation

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• Circle
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• Friends
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• Minnie
• Driver
• Chris
• O'Donnell
• Geraldine
• O'Rawe
• Saffron
• Burrows
• Colin
• Firth
• Alan
• Cumming

[cheesein]

What I learned from this movie:

(1) do not date men in Ireland

(2) Colin Firth needs a razor

[mac8cheese]

All the men in this movie are horny bastards.

[sashhi25]

why isn't chris o donnell irish? his accents absolutely shit lol.. but we don't speak like that now like. ugh i'm going to move to america...some of the lads over there seem to be exactly what im looking for ♥

[minniemikee]

chris o' donnell is cute!

[roseyosey]

This movie doesn't serve the book any ounce of justice.

[adeliago]

@mac8cheese Total agreement, except, well, does Ciarán Hinds' character really count? ^^

[ladylionXOX]

@mac8cheese same as in real life -_____-

[dotcomguy79]

the movie is ok but the book is wayyy better! left out alot in this! Maeve Binchy's books are great!

[Bella2Jay]

@NGxD95 Moya Brennan and Shane McGowan, You're The One. I know, a year too late but there you go :)

[MonsoonZimmer483]

To be honest, I'm not a fan of this ending. It's too fairytale-like, and plus the movie doesn't really show Jack as the idiotic player he is in the book, it never mentions that he slept with a welsh girl while in England, or that he and Nan actually went to Eve's cottage, like with Simon, more than once, which makes him even more of an asshole.

But overall, although the book was better, they did quite a good job on this, which is more than I can say for other films based on books.

[lindy3vega]

what! i thought she didn't stayed with him. but I'm glad they did.

[sixstoriesfall]

Once a cheat, always a cheat.