A Man of No Importance

An extraordinary tale of an ordinary hero

6.0
19941h 39m

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.

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Albert Finney

Alfred Byrne

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Brenda Fricker

Lily Byrne

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Michael Gambon

Ivor J. Carney

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Tara Fitzgerald

Adele Rice

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Rufus Sewell

Robbie Fay

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Patrick Malahide

Inspector Carson

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David Kelly

Christy Ward

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Mick Lally

Father Ignatius Kenny

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Brendan Conroy

Rasher Flynn

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers

First Young Man

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Vincent Walsh

Second Young Man

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Paul Roe

Third Young Man

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