

Small Things Like These
If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore so you can keep on.
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
- $12.5M
- Language
- English
- small town
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- choir
- flashback
- ireland
- barbershop
- catholicism
- coal
- merchant
- disturbed
- abuse
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Produced in
Belgium, Ireland, United States of America
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- TheatricalU/A 7+15 Nov 2024
United StatesUS
- PremiereHamptons International Film Festival5 Oct 2024
- PremiereHeartland International Film Festival16 Oct 2024
- PremiereOrcas Island Film Festival / Woodstock Film Festival17 Oct 2024
- PremiereMontclair Film Festival19 Oct 2024
- PremierePhiladelphia International Film Festival22 Oct 2024
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival24 Oct 2024
- TheatricalPG-138 Nov 2024
- Digital / OTTPG-1317 Dec 2024
- Digital / OTTPG-13Hulu8 Apr 2025
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A1 Nov 2024
- Digital / OTT1216 Dec 2024
- PhysicalBlu-ray / DVD3 Feb 2025
- Digital / OTTPrime Video12 May 2025
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM10 Apr 2025
American SamoaAS
- Digital / OTT16 Dec 2024
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+136 Mar 2025
BelgiumBE
- PremiereFilm Fest Gent9 Oct 2024
- Theatrical1220 Nov 2024
BrazilBR
- PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival17 Oct 2024
- Theatrical1213 Mar 2025
- Digital / OTT1222 May 2025
ChileCL
- Theatrical143 Apr 2025
CroatiaHR
- Theatrical20 Feb 2025
CzechiaCZ
- PhysicalBlu-ray 19 Mar 2025
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical7 Mar 2025
- Digital / OTT8 Mar 2025
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Small Things Like These was released on 1 November 2024.
Audience reviews
3- R8/10
r96sk
11/1/2024
<em>'Small Things Like These'</em> is absorbing. I basically got exactly what I expected from this one. It's a slow burn, quiet film featuring a stellar, if somewhat understated, Cillian Murphy performance. The pacing is spot on and the story is undoubtedly engrossing, it's one that holds plenty of emotion behind it. It does conclude rather abruptly, I in fact overheard someone nearby remark "that can't be it" …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/3/2024
A friend of mine used to own a big gay bar in Dublin, and I recall being in it the day that marriage was legalised in Eire. One of the women celebrating was telling us of her childhood at the hands of the nuns in the 1970s. It was a ghastly story of women who hadn't an ounce of compassion between them all, and this film picks up that cudgel and swings it squarely at what it is little better than a religious equivalen…
- B6/10
Brent Marchant
3/21/2025
When it comes to minimalism in filmmaking, there’s deftly deliberate understatement, which can be a decidedly valuable asset, and then there’s cryptic obfuscation, which frequently leaves viewers scratching their heads. And, when it comes to this fourth feature outing from director Tim Mielants, the line between the two is undeniably and confusingly razor thin, a tale that’s so exceedingly nuanced and purposely restr…
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