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Movie Review: 'In America'

Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan's latest movie, In America, draws on the filmmaker's own move to the United States. The tale of an Irish family starting over in New York City mixes autobiography and fiction. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.

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