One beach, two ex-best friends, and the fiancée one married. Awkward doesn't cover it.
Two boyhood best friends are divided by 25 years of misunderstanding amidst the escalating conflict in Northern Ireland. The two boys’ lives take very different paths until Joe returns for the first time to his homeland with his 24-year-old daughter, Patricia. In his absence, Paddy married Joe’s former fiancée Mary. What happened all those years ago? Can old wounds be healed? The answer is hilarious and moving in equal parts.
Acting
Hinds and Hill's unspoken history speaks volumes.
Writing
Terry George packs 25 years into 29 minutes.
Cinematography
Northern Irish coast as character and wound.
Director
Terry George
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Terry George made this after Hotel Rwanda and In the Name of the Father, returning to his Northern Irish roots with personal family history informing the script.
The film captures the specific silence of The Troubles' aftermath — how ordinary people swallowed political violence into personal grievances, never speaking of either.
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