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Breaking Out

202187 minGdocumentary

Fergus O’Farrell, an influential Irish singer-songwriter, navigates his artistic legacy while facing the challenges of a degenerative illness over a decade.

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Michael McCormack

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Fergus O’Farrell, an influential Irish singer-songwriter, navigates his artistic legacy while facing the challenges of a degenerative illness over a decade.

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Filmed over 10 years and covering a lifetime, Breaking Out is the story of singer and musician Fergus O’Farrell, an artist whose unique talent inspired a generation of songwriters and touched thousands of lives, even as his own was slipping away.

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