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Meeting My Grandad

2025 · 12 min

A gentle, bittersweet comedy-drama about loneliness and invented family, with a quiet emotional pull and moments of warmth.

Directed by
Conor Harte
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
James Hayes, John Furlong, Kristians Keiriss
Overview
Elliott, a lonely young man with no family, learns of a deceased grandfather he never knew. Feeling robbed of such a connection, he decides to hire an actor, Frank, to play the role of his Grandad in his daily life.

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Directed by
Conor Harte
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
James Hayes, John Furlong, Kristians Keiriss
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • loneliness
  • found family
  • identity
  • grief
  • deception
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Conor Harte
Written by
Conor Harte
Starring
James Hayes, John Furlong, Kristians Keiriss, Maebh Larkin, Caleb Mason, Lisa Kuzmina, Caroline Fabry, Darragh Wilders
Cinematography
Oisín Moroney
Runtime
12 min
Country
Ireland

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