Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Tom Farrelly
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and roma...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 19, 2004
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Flixster Reviews (619)
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August 20, 2009I really wanted to like this, but it was really stupid. Good cast, but it was so pointless and just not good.
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July 29, 2008Coming out of nowhere it's amazing. Real and balanced between sadness and happiness, with more than satisfying performances, especially from Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy. Irish cinema at its best.
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June 25, 2008After one of the greatest and most unexpected openings to a film I've ever seen the film is off to a good start. It begins as though it may be some kind of Irish Mike Leigh film. Unfortunately it goes down a convoluted route of too many characters in an intertwining plot similar ...( read more)
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November 13, 2009Visto per caso su Sky in un noioso pomeriggio di un giorno a caso di un anno a caso.
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September 21, 2009I should have listened to My Son, back in '04...Jus' watched it... Flawless!
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August 26, 2009Are people in Ireland really that violent? At first I thought it was going to be some silly "chick-flick" comedy, but since I like Shirley Henderson and Kelly Macdonald, I thought I'd check it out. It was like all the craziness of "Trainspotting" without the heroin.
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July 21, 2009Not bad, but I doubt the wisdom of putting brown sauce in tea. I'm not about to try that anytime soon!
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August 1, 2004
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
March 26, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
A virtuoso act from beginning to end, juggling violence and farce, coincidence and luck, characters with good hearts and others evil to the core. full review
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