The film, starring Saoirse Ronan, is about a young Irish girls who immigrates to Brooklyn in the mid-1900s.
It has all the symptoms of a movie that'd usually bore the fuck out of me, but for some reason I loved it. It was enjoyable, well acted, and quite touching; really puts into perspective how hard the life of an immigrant was before airlines, cell phones, the Internet, etc.
I got teary eyed at least 3 different times too, it was pretty rad.