EILEEN

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop. Trapped between caring for her alcoholic father and her job as a secreta ry at the boys prison, she tempers her dreary days with dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, her nights and weekend s are filled with shoplifting and cleaning up her increasingly deranged fathers messes.When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Sain t John arrives on the scene as the new counsellor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted, unable to resist what appears to be a miraculo usly buddi...[Read more]