Felicia’s Journey

In this riveting drama, Bob Hoskins gives a sterling performance as a genial British caterer with a penchant for helping lost souls. He has a dark, disturbing secret, which is in danger of coming to light after he befriends a pregnant Irish teen (Elaine Cassidy), who’s in England looking for her boyfriend. Peter McDonald, Arsinee Khanjian, Gerard McSorley., A pregnant Irish teenager travels to England in search of her boyfriend and is befriended by a genial, middle-aged caterer with a dark, disturbing secret., Atom Egoyan’s dark drama stars Elaine Cassidy as a young, pregnant girl from rural Ireland who pursues the young father to Birmingham. While trying to track him down, and searching for a B&B, she encounters Bob Hoskins, who fixes her up and becomes a source of comfort to her. But behind his amiable mask lies a long history of abusing homeless women and Cassidy looks like she may be the next victim…, Directed by Atom Egoyan, Felicia’s Journey is a low-key psychological thriller about the relationship between a lovesick young woman and an older man with an ugly secret. Felicia (Elaine Cassidy) has lived all of her life in a small village in rural Ireland. She has fallen in love with a boy named Johnny (Peter McDonald), so when Johnny unexpectedly travels to England in search of a job, Felicia wants to follow him — especially since she’s pregnant, a fact that she’s keeping secret from her family, as well as Johnny. However, Johnny’s family refuses to give her his address, so she leaves for Birmingham with only a sketchy idea of his whereabouts. Shortly after arriving, Felicia encounters Joseph Ambrose Hilditch (Bob Hoskins), the meticulous manager of a catering concern. She needs a place to stay and he recommends a good bed-and-breakfast. They soon become friendly, but Hilditch is more than just a mildly eccentric middle-aged man with a taste for French cuisine: he’s had a long history of using and abusing homeless women, and Felicia looks like she’s doomed to be the next victim. Based on a novel by William Trevor, Felicia’s Journey was shown in competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival., Unsettling drama about an Irish woman who moves to England to search for her boyfriend and is befriended by a lonely, middle-aged catering manager. He recommends a boarding house to her, but a series of flashbacks reveals that his friendly demeanour masks a dark secret, and it soon becomes apparent that the woman is in grave danger.