Award winning actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) plays a woman passing
as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some
thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a
prison of her own making. Mia Wasikowska (Helen), Aaron Johnson (Joe)
and Brendan Gleeson (Dr. Holloran) join a prestigious, international
cast that includes Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Janet McTeer, Brenda Fricker
and Pauline Collins. Rodrigo Garcia directs from a script that Glenn
Close, along with Man Booker prize-winning novelist John Banville and
Gabriella Prekop, adapted from a short story by Irish author George
Moore.
19th century Ireland: a woman with no husband or family and without work
would face a bleak life of poverty and loneliness. Albert, a shy butler
who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years -
'he' is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all her life
in order to escape this fate. When handsome painter Hubert Page arrives
at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she
has created for herself. She gathers her nerves to court beautiful,
saucy young maid Helen in whom she thinks she's found a soul-mate - but
Helen's eye is on a new arrival: handsome, bad-boy Joe, the new
handy-man! As Albert dares to hope that she might one day live a normal
life, we catch a glimpse of a free-spirited woman who is caught in the
wrong time...This humorous but ultimately poignant ensemble story about
life 'below-stairs' is nothing less than Gosford Park meets Boys Don't
Cry.
Cast: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, Janet McTeer, Jonathan
Rhys-Meyers, Brendan Gleeson, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Mark Williams,
Bronagh Gallagher, Pauline Collins
Albert Nobbs hits theaters on January 27th, 2012.
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