Tara Road

Tara Road (2005)

Sometimes the only way to find yourself... is to lose yourself in someone else's life.

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

Date of release
2005-05-11
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (40)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Drama
Director
Gillies MacKinnon

Casting

Interesting facts

Tara Road is a 2005 drama film directed by Gillies MacKinnon, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy. The film stars Olivia Williams, Andie MacDowell, Stephen Rea, and Iain Glen and follows Marilyn and Ria - one American, one Irish - on a two-month house swap, as both have suffered crises and need a change.

Production

Tara Road is the fourth Maeve Binchy novel to be adapted for film or television. Binchy said she once swapped her house in London to stay in Sydney, Australia, but that the story was not autobiographical "because nothing would be duller than reading about two happily married, settled couples, which is what we and they were", although the trip did inspire the story.

The filmmakers asked Binchy which location in Dublin she had been thinking of for Tara Road and she told them but the real location proved impractical and they instead found a different location like the one she had in mind. The Kenilworth Square area of Rathgar, Dublin, was the location of titular Tara Road. Caviston's deli and restaurant in Glasthule, Dublin, was used for filming.

Filming took place in Cape Town, South Africa, for three weeks for the scenes set in Connecticut.

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