The Miracle Club Review

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The Miracle Club Review

There’s just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes.

Why did I come to this movie again?

Some friends and I wanted to see a movie, and since The Sound of Freedom was sold out and I’d already seen Indiana Jones twice, we decided to take a chance on this one. We knew nothing going in. I watched the preview and still wasn’t entirely sure what it was about, but it looked cute. (Warning, while there are a few cute moments, this is not a light-hearted film.)

4 of 5

Characters

This film revolves around four women who live or have lived in a small Irish town. One in her 80s, two in their late 50s or early 60s, and one who is probably still in her 20s.

By the end of the movie I understood and mostly liked each character, but it took a while to get there. It’s hard for me to see people who have been close in the past fight, and this film is full of that.

Each of the four characters has a good arc and finds the healing they need instead of the healing they want. The acting was phenomenal.

I didn’t love the husbands in the story. They were all very shallow, two of them so much so that they were unbelievable to me.

4 of 5

Did I care what happened?

Yes, but part of that was because the writers withheld a lot of information from the audience. I mean, it’s a tactic we use to string the audience along with small and enticing hooks. Most of these were about what had happened in the past. The present was pretty self-explanatory, but the past between the women was complicated. Almost overly so.

3 of 5

Plot Holes

This plot felt pretty solid. I don’t remember anything throwing me out of the movie.

What I do remember is being frustrated about the slow leak of information that occurred. I was annoyed about it and so were the people I was with.

4 of 5

How many times did I yawn?

This is not a fast-paced movie. I figured that out in the first few minutes, and so I wasn’t expecting to be on the edge of my seat. A few parts were quite slow.

4 of 5

Cool Factor

This made me want to go to France, so that’s a thing.

I mentioned before, and I’ll say it again, that the acting was excellent.

This story might make you look at your life and the people you’re still angry with about things that happened in the past in a new light.

5 of 5

The End

The end was…I’m not sure. So many hard things came to light during this story that I didn’t go away from the film uplifted. I also wasn’t depressed. Maybe I missed some of the emotions.

The men were predictably thrilled to have their women back but I didn’t believe that they’d actually come to appreciate them, which kind of irked me.

4 of 5

Overall Enjoyment

While I’m glad I saw this film, I won’t see it again. It’s well-written with a spot-on theme of getting what you need instead of what you want that runs through every scene of the movie. A few of the actors deserve awards for their performances.

I still can’t get over the lack of details that this film gave us about some of the characters, especially what they’re doing in the present. Did it matter to the story? Not really, but maybe. That’s what I came away thinking about, and it shouldn’t have been. (This could totally be a me problem.)

If you’re into literary fiction then you’ll probably gobble this one up. Loads of layers and meaning.

4 of 5