A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father. While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Acting
Barnard Hughes plays ghost dad with infuriating, heartbreaking specificity.
Writing
Hugh Leonard's stage adaptation keeps its theatrical bones—intimate and brutal.
Director
Matt Clark
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barnard Hughes originated the role on Broadway and won a Tony—this film was his only chance to immortalize it.
The 'Da' of the title is working-class Dublin shorthand that somehow contains multitudes—familiarity, distance, love, and resentment all in two letters.
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