movie seen: Philomena

This is the second movie I've seen about this quaint and sticky episode in Irish history. Like Dan Aykroyd co-starring with Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, Steve Coogan trods the boards with Judi Dench and doesn't make a fool of himself. His character does, but that's part of the story.

In a commentary, unusually included with the Redbox version, Coogan says that if he'd read the real Martin's book before optioning it, he might not have gone ahead with the optioning. I'll take that as a cue not to read the book, which means that the questions this movie filled me with will have to go unanswered, even if the answer is, "They made that up for the movie." Questions like:

( questions and spoilers, we have them )