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500 Miles (2026)

  • Drama
  • 102 min
  • 9 age guide
  • ★ 6.7/10 from 3 ratings

A broken family is forced to come together when 16-year-old Finn and his livewire younger brother Charlie run away from trouble at home in England to reach their estranged grandfather on Ireland’s stunning and wild west coast.

Directed byMorgan Matthews

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