When is ‘Small Things Like These’ starring Cillian Murphy coming out? Trailer, cast, release date

Cillian Murphy’s latest movie, the historical drama Small Things Like These, is due for theatrical release in the United States in just under two months’ time.

Small Things Like These: plot summary

A film that both stars and is produced by the Oscar winner, the picture is about Ireland’s notorious ‘Magdalene laundries’: the Catholic church-run laundries in which, from the 18th century to the late 20th century, so-called “fallen” women - such as unmarried mothers and orphans - were imprisoned and forced to work, without pay, in atrocious conditions.

In Small Things Like These, Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a 1980s coal distributor in County Wexford, Ireland, who is forced to confront childhood memories when he witnesses a young woman being forcibly delivered to a Magdalene laundry.

Who else stars in Small Things Like These?

Based on Claire Keegan’s 2021 novel of the same name, Small Things Like These is directed by Tim Mielants, and Murphy’s co-producers include fellow Academy Award recipients Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Alongside the Oppenheimer lead actor, the 97-minute picture stars Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley, Clare Dunne, Helen Behan and Emily Watson.

When does Small Things Like These premiere in the US?

In the US, Small Things Like These is scheduled to be released in movie theatres on November 8, 2024. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the movie is out on November 1.

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What has the critical reception to Small Things Like These been?

After its world premiere, at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, Small Things Like These attracted positive reviews. “I was so rapt, so caught up in this film, that I wasn’t aware that it was going to be the ending until the screen faded to black,” wrote The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw. “It is an absorbing, committed drama.”

RogerEbert.com’s Robert Daniels described the movie as “a haunting and meditative work”, and Variety’s Guy Lodge praised its “fist-in-the-gut power”.

The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney agreed that Small Things Like These is an “acutely affecting drama”, concluding: “Led with aching sensitivity by Murphy […], this is a somber, unhurried drama that takes its cue from the seeming quietness of the title and is all the more intensely moving for it.”