This movie is more pep rally, than movie. What I found the most objectionable, was as the movie is trying to erase how we feel about people who have "challenges" to their lives, we are reinforcing an old stereotype having the "haters" in the movie being exclusively be Irish . I will give you, that the Irish population during this time period could run as high as 25% of NYC population. But, there were other ethnic groups (Germans) that were living in NYC.