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 romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Acting
Colin Farrell's feral charisma meets Shirley Henderson's devastating fragility.
Writing
Mark O'Rowe's overlapping dialogue snaps like a Dublin Pulp Fiction.
Direction
Crowley makes misery cinematic without romanticizing poverty.
Director
John Crowley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Cillian Murphy's first major film role after Disco Pigs, and he reportedly took a pay cut to work with Crowley again.
The film captures pre-Celtic Tiger Dublin so specifically that it's now a time capsule of working-class Ireland before economic boom erased these neighborhoods.
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