Circle of Friends (1995 film)

Circle of Friends is a 1995 film directed by Irish filmmaker Pat OConnor, and based on the novel of the same name written by Maeve Binchy.

Eves education is financed by the local wealthy Westward Protestant family, her fathers employers until his death. The family has also willed to her a cottage on their property. Eve boards at a convent in Dublin, while Benny must commute daily between home and Dublin, her parents being loath to let her go. They would prefer she marry the loathsome and creepy Sean Walsh, her fathers faithful employee at his tailor shop.Once in Dublin the two girls reconnect with a mature and sophisticated Nan who is quite aware of her bewitching effect on the opposite sex. Benny eventually falls in love with Jack Foley, a handsome rugby player and doctors son, studying medicine and expected to follow in his fathers footsteps, though he is not quite convinced that this is the career for him. After the College Ball, Benny and Jack begin a relationship, Eve starts to date Aidan, a friend of Jacks, amp Nan becomes involved with the much older Simon Westward, who the group ran into as they entered the dance and whom Nan accidentally arranged to run into at a lunch. While Benny is able to resist a physical relationship with Jack, Nan is not and believes that Simon truly loves her. ........

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