The Closer You Get (aka American Women) (2000) Color Widescreen Approx. 90 Min. Optional subtitles /close-captions in English. (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.)
Starring: Ian Hart, Sean McGinley, Niamh Cusack, Ruth McCabe, Ewan Stewart, Pat Shortt, Cathleen Bradley, Sean McDonagh, Risteard Cooper and Maureen O'Brien. Written by Herbie Wave and William Ivory. Directed by Aileen Ritchie.
Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate (Niamh Cusack), a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband (Ewan Stewart) and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran (IanHart) the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan (Cathleen Bradley) is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie (Pat Shortt) sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest (Risteard Cooper). But, will anyone answer the ad?
“It's hard to see what's right in front of your eyes when there's so much more to look at.”