Circle of Friends (1995)

Love gained, lost and regained in Ireland
Set in 1950's Ireland and focuses on the lives and loves of three childhood friends. growing up and attending university at Trinity College, Dublin.
Plain looking and sensitive dreamer Benny (Minnie Driver), and her best friend quiet and observant Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), who has been brought up by nuns, go to college and are reacquainted with their childhood friend, the socially and sexually precocious Nan (Saffron Burrows).

Benny finds love with medical student and college rugby star Jack Foley (Chris O'Donnell), while her parents have set their sights on her marrying the creepy Sean Walsh (Alan Cumming).
Meanwhile Nan has a passionate affair with a gentleman from a landed Protestant gentry family, Simon Westward (Colin Firth).
After being impregnated and jilted by Simon, Nan sets her sights on Jack, making for heartbreak all around. Betrayed by Nan, she can always count on the love and fierce loyalty of her friend Eve.
Eve is my personal favourite, quiet but feisty in her won way and always loyal, and pretty in a cute elfin way.

This movie is set in green and beautiful Ireland, and is a story of love gained, lost and re-found.
Touching and gentle, with just the right mix of all, and a memorable set of characters, this movie was one of the best of the 90s.Set in 1950's Ireland and focuses on the lives and loves of three childhood friends. growing up and attending university at Trinity College, Dublin.
Plain looking and sensitive dreamer Benny (Minnie Driver), and her best friend quiet and observant Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe), who has been brought up by nuns, go to college and are reacquainted with their childhood friend, the socially and sexually precocious Nan (Saffron Burrows).

Benny finds love with medical student and college rugby star Jack Foley (Chris O'Donnell), while her parents have set their sights on her marrying the creepy Sean Walsh (Alan Cumming).
Meanwhile Nan has a passionate affair with a gentleman from a landed Protestant gentry family, Simon Westward (Colin Firth).
After being impregnated and jilted by Simon, Nan sets her sights on Jack, making for heartbreak all around. Betrayed by Nan, she can always count on the love and fierce loyalty of her friend Eve.
Eve is my personal favourite, quiet but feisty in her won way and always loyal, and pretty in a cute elfin way.

This movie is set in green and beautiful Ireland, and is a story of love gained, lost and re-found.
Touching and gentle, with just the right mix of all, and a memorable set of characters, this movie was one of the best of the 90s.

Elements of Comedy and Sorrow
This is a movie that touches your heart.

Lush and green (of course) is the rich background of this Irish film, the girls are all dolls and it's an enriching film to watch.

Once you've watched it , you can't forget it as it starts with childhood and ends at the brim of adulthood, giving us, the viewers something we can all recognize,which is friendship.

Elements of Comedy and Sorrow
This is a movie that touches your heart.

Lush and green (of course) is the rich background of this Irish film, the girls are all dolls and it's an enriching film to watch.

Once you've watched it , you can't forget it as it starts with childhood and ends at the brim of adulthood, giving us, the viewers something we can all recognize,which is friendship.