Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena (Judi Dench) was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a “fallen woman”. When her son was only a toddler, he was taken away...Read more by the nuns for adoption in America. Philomena spent the next fifty years searching for him in vain. But Philomena meets a journalist (Steve Coogan) who is interested in her story, and together they set off to America to find her son.
Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena (Judi Dench) was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a “fallen woman”. When her son was only a...Read more toddler, he was taken away by the nuns for adoption in America. Philomena spent the next fifty years searching for him in vain. But Philomena meets a journalist (Steve Coogan) who is interested in her story, and together they set off to America to find her son.
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