
Based on the true story that gripped Ireland in the 1990's, Property of The State tells of a disturbed young man by the name of Brendan O'Donnell. Seen through the eyes of his sister Ann Marie, piece by piece she threads together the events that ultimately lead to the harrowing murders of a young mother, her child and a local priest in the forest of East Clare, Ireland. Ann Marie lived through it all. As the loving sister of a loving brother, she became the sister of a murder... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on the true story that gripped Ireland in the 1990's, Property of The State tells of a disturbed young man by the name of Brendan O'Donnell. Seen through the eyes of his sister Ann Marie, piece by piece she threads together the events that ultimately lead to the harrowing murders of a young mother, her child and a local priest in the forest of East Clare, Ireland. Ann Marie lived through it all. As the loving sister of a loving brother, she became the sister of a murderer and the sister of a man described as the most evil man in Ireland. She had not committed a crime, yet many saw her guilty by association.
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| RTÉ (Ireland)Alan CorrProperty of The State does a very good job of telling a terrible human story against a backdrop of institutional incompetence and fear. It is a very Irish tragedy. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyProperty of the State is a relentlessly grim chronicle of systemic failure and institutional abuse. |
| Irish IndependentPaul WhitingtonProperty Of The State clunks along like a TV movie and ultimately fails to justify its exhumation of this awful event. |
| Total FilmKevin HarleyDirector Kit Ryan plods through Brendan's story of abuse, but the narrative flails. |