Prosperity (2007)

Directed by

Lenny Abrahamson

Genre

drama

Country

Ireland

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four one-hour episodes each follow a different person on the same day, showing their ordinary and sometimes difficult lives in Ireland. The stories mix humor and sadness as they look at moments of connection and loneliness.

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What happens

Prosperity is a series of four one-hour dramas for television from director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O'Halloran. Prosperity features "four powerful, moving and funny stories set on the same day, with each episode examining the life of a single character." The series first aired on 3 September 2007 on RTÉ, and was produced by Ed Guiney and Catherine Magee for Element Films. The series was nominated for six Irish Film and Television Awards in 2008, and won two, for Directing (Lenny Abrahamson) and Script (Mark O'Halloran). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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