The film is set in 1985, and co-stars Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, and Eileen Walsh. Playwright Enda Walsh (“Disco Pigs,” “Hunger”) adapated the script, with “Peaky Blinders” director Tim Mielants directing. The feature premiered at Berlinale 2024; it was later acquired by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions.

The Oscar winner plays a hard-working coal merchant and father haunted by Church-sanctioned cruelty in Ireland in the Lionsgate drama that will hit theaters on Nov. 8.

Cillian Murphy also serves as a producer in the movie, which is based on Claire Keegan’s 2021 novel of the same name.

After his Oscar-winning performance in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy is gearing up to grace the screens once again. The actor stars in Small Things Like These, another historical drama, in a role that is starkly different from the one he played in his previous movie.

Lionsgate has shared a poster and trailer for director Tim Mielants’ upcoming drama Small Things Like These. Based on Claire Keegan’s best-selling novel of the same name, the film stars Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy as a devoted father who uncovers disturbing secrets hidden by a convent in his small Irish town,

Watch the Small Things Like These trailer. Oscar winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan.