John Furlong helped distract gardaí searching for girls and women fleeing the Bessborough mother and baby home. One survivor's daughter compares him to Cillian Murphy's character, Bill Furlong ...

Small Things Like These paints a fascinating picture of life in Ireland throughout the 20th century. Adapted from the 2021 novel by Claire Keegan, the movie looks into the life of Bill Furlong, a ...

CILLIAN MURPHY: (As Bill Furlong) It's not up to me, love. SIMON: "Small Things Like These" is a new film starring and produced by Cillian Murphy, the Academy Award-winning actor, and directed by ...

Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant with his own tumultuous history, with complexity and a simmering internal fire. Murphy has very few lines and commands most of the film with his expressions.

Murphy plays coal merchant Bill Furlong, father of five girls in a small Irish town in the 1980s. “We meet him at this point in his life where he’s experiencing some major emotional turmoil.

Small Things Like These ★★★ (out of 4 stars) The Story Starts When the Film Ends. Bill Furlong is a mostly silent, hard-working man, eking out a living for his wife and five girls as a coal ...

Bill Furlong is the coal man in an Irish town. He delivers sacks of coal to homes, businesses and a local laundry, run as a charitable institution by nuns, where girls considered wayward wash ...