Movie Review: Into the West The film, Into the West - script by Jim Sheridan, directed by Mike Newell, direction of photography by Tom Sigel, produced by John Cavendish and Tim Palmer, and starring Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ruaidtri Conroy and Ciaran Fitzgerald - contains several themes, each dealing with a prominent issue in society, and about how we deal with such issues as the relate to us. The film is about an Irish Traveller, who has lost most of what is important to him, and is only holding on to life by the thread that is his children. When he loses them, instead of breaking, he takes action to get them back (to find them), and in do