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An award-winning, exhilaratingly funny coming-of-age film, Cowboys & Angels tells the witty story about two Irish lads-one straight and one gay-from their youthful career ambitions to romance to entan...( read more 
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MCT:June 7, 2008Well scripted and performed, Cowboys and Angels is a great movie to watch. Watching a shy young man take control of his life with the help of an unknown friend that he didnt expect.
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MCT:December 9, 2007Charming gay/straight love story from Ireland. The strikingly handsome leads work well together in a heartwarming, sometimes lighthearted coming of age story. Good fun and easy on the eye.
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MCT:October 17, 2007was only alright i guess. the plot was really jumpy.. like there were loop holes in places but other than that i think it was a rather sweet portrayal of friendship between straight and gay.
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MCT:July 27, 2007
nice story. not too funny but very good film. good shots of limerick and the music wasn't bad either.
the story was good and the preformances top rate. well worth a look -
MCT:June 29, 2007
A pretty standard film with its heart in the right place, Cowboys & Angels tells the story of two Irish flatmates - Shane, a straight 20 year-old who is unhappy with his career and his directionless life, and Vincent, a gay 23 year-old whose life is pretty much solid, pursuing his career ambitions in the fashion industry and exploring possible romances. The two were former pupils at the same school and end up sharing a flat through coincidence, and become friends. When Shane, trying to overcome his shyness, discovers a stash of drugs in the corridor of the building he shares with other people, it begins in motion an unlikely involvement in drug running; seemingly this is more interesting and certainly more financially rewarding than his dead-end career, but soon his life is spiralling out of control.
Cowboys & Angels is really rather generic for its first hour, even with the introduction of the drugs storyline and an unrequited infatuation that Shane has for Gemma (who in a contrived coincidence turns out to be Vincent's best friend). The character of Vincent, the flamboyant gay guy with an interest in fashion and a bathroom cabinet crammed with hair-care product, is a walking stereotype, and most of the other characters are steeped in cliché. It doesn't help that Allen Leech, as Vincent, overplays everything whilst Michael Legge, as Shane, mumbles his way through most of his lines. At the one hour mark though, the stereotypes are reversed in a brilliant sequence which starts with a drugged up Shane in a club making a prat of himself and ends with him back in the apartment with the dealer he's doing the running for, whilst in another room Gemma tries to seduce Vincent. It's one of the few truly effective moments that actually make sitting through the film worthwhile, before it finishes predictably in sentimentality.
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