THE SECRET SCRIPTURE

By Jim SHERIDAN

VOLTAGE PICTURES - as SALES

Drama - Completed 2016

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and ’30s.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2016
Gala Presentations
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • IRELAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 108 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jim SHERIDAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Johnny FERGUSON
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/00AC-D1A5-02C2-86DA-A29D-5
    • Producer(s)
    • Noel PEARSON
    • Synopsis
    • Roseanne McNulty (Vanessa Redgrave/Rooney Mara), a once vibrant and lively beauty in her youth, has spent the majority of her adult life confined to a mental hospital in rural Ireland. She has been institutionalized for so long, no one seems to remember why she was hospitalized in the first place.
      When a new chief psychiatrist, Dr. Greene (Eric Bana), arrives, he takes a keen interest in Roseanne. He finds a hidden memoir, written over the course of decades by Roseanne, which unravels the mystery of her incarceration, as well as telling the tale of her passionate, yet tortured, life.