The Brothers McMullen is a 1995 American comedy-drama film directed, written, produced by, and starring Edward Burns. It deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. The film begins with Finbar "Barry" McMullen standing at the grave of his recently-deceased father, along with his mother, who tells him that she's returning to her native Ireland to be with Finbar O'Shaughnessy , her sweetheart of long ago. She... tells Barry that while she gave Barry's father 35 of the best years of her life, she's going to start living life her way with the man she really loves. While this could be interpreted as disrespect for the memory of the family patriarch, it is later revealed in the movie that he was an alcoholic and abused his family prior to his death. Fast forward five years after the cemetery scene. Barry's brother Jack has purchased their parents' home and lives in it with his wife Molly, who is pressing Jack to start a family, despite his reluctance.
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| Release date: | August 9, 1995 |
| Directed by: | Edward Burns |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 98 Minutes |
| Producer: | Edward Burns, Dick Fisher |
| Editor: | Dick Fisher |
| Music by: | Seamus Egan |
| Cinematography: | Dick Fisher |
| Screenplay by: | Edward Burns |
| Estimated budget: | $23,800 |
| Genre: | Comedy |