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1) Was that her (Sarah's)father or her stepfather or employer....because she referred to him as father i think a couple of times but the brothers kept saying her mother and her were just servants in the house???

The older man (Andrew) is her employer. Sarah and her mother are poorer tenants who take jobs with Andrew's land-owning farmer family. They are not related, but Andrew appears to develop a fatherly affection for her. He, I believe, does call Sarah his daughter once, but it is said in a conscious sort of way implying that he is thinking of her as his daughter rather than it being true biologically. I don't recall Sarah ever calling Andrew her father. Sarah says that her father died a drunkard wandering the roads of Sligo.


2) Did she have 1 or 2 children with the brothers?.... I thought they said she had a boy.... then it showed 18 years later and some woman goes to visit her and begs her for something so she can get married then leaves this young man turns to Sarah and says she wants to marry one of your men then Sarah talks to the woman outside and the woman says she wants her father to walk her down the aisle but doesn't know who that is.... Then Sarah get married.

Sarah had two children. We only see the first child, the boy, as a baby, but with the jump forward in time, a second child must have been born and is now grown as well. Sarah's daughter is the woman who wants to get married. She wants to officially have a surname and a father in the eyes of the church, so that she can have her wedding in the church and in the traditional way (with a father to walk her down the aisle). She wants her mother to marry one of the brothers, which would be a means of proclaiming that brother Sarah's children's father.

The young man is Sarah's oldest child. What the young man says is "she wants to marry your man." The phrase "your man" here is a common Irish colloquial usage. It doesn't mean 'one of your men'; in this context it would mean the daughter's man--a man she must have been dating. We see him later on the motor bike.

It's done in a somewhat cryptic way, but one pressumes Sarah marries Hamilton, the older of the two brothers. She surrenders her opposition to marrying for her daughter's sake.

Personally, I like December Bride. It's a bit strange at times. Takes some getting used to, perhaps. But it has a very authentically rural feel about it and is more genuine in feel than the Irish-Rural-Drama 101 made-for-American-audiences version of Ireland one often gets in films.


(And on a side note what is it with Ciaran Hinds playing these characters that cant keep it in their/his pants???

Well, such men aren't at all uncommon. :-) So I suppose it isn't surprising that an actor would get such roles. Although I think Ciaran has played a very wide variety of different kinds of men in this regard.

I am not familiar with December Bride, but even so, I found this explanation very interesting (may have to see it;-)

Wow! Trip down memory lane with that post being bumped. I mean that as a very, very good thing. I enjoy December Bride...haven't seen it in years, though. I can see some people not liking the slowness of it or other aspects, perhaps, but it's still, I think, one of the more interesting rural-based Irish films out there. It's beautifully shot. And, of course, it also features Ciaran in his young (and thinner!) days, so that's a good thing.