Synopsis
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.
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Cast
- Luke GriffinDanny Quinn
- Jonathan Rhys MeyersFinbar Flynn
- Sean LawlorMichael Flynn
- Marie MullenEllen Quinn
- Eleanor MethvenPat Flynn
- Conor FitzgeraldFergal Flynn
- Aoife DoyleJodie Flynn
- Don FoleyGrandpa Quinn
- Lorraine PilkingtonKatie
- Tina KellegherMs. Byrne
- 80
The New York Times
Acted by an appealing cast, enlivened with well-chosen and varied music and filmed with bleak beauty by the cinematographer Eduardo Serra. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Narrative-driven and determinedly unpredictable, The Disappearance of Finbar is true to its mandate as a mystery story to a fault. [18 Jul 1987] - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The beautiful ice-blue landscapes are really the only reason to sit through this rambling and rather silly first feature by writer-director Sue Clayton. - 50
Village Voice
[Rhys Meyers] remains trapped in an enervating road movie - shelved so long that Rhys Meyers still appears to have baby fat - summed up when Finbar, who turns up in Finland (natch), asks whey-faced Danny, "You couldn't find anything better to do than to come find me?!" - 50
New York Daily News
Nothing that makes much sense in Sue Clayton's strained fable about friendship, betrayal and the escapist dream of disappearing in the midst of a miserable patch of life. [17 Mar 2000] - 40
Variety
Brit filmmaker Sue Clayton's muddled feature bow is full of intriguing ideas and incidental charms that fail to come together into a cohesive whole. - 40
Empire
An ambitious and sloppy, yet occasionally likeable, cross-European fable. - 12
New York Post
Part of the problem is that the Finbar character is both underdeveloped and unattractive - you don't get a sense of why anyone would miss him, let alone go searching for him in the snow. [17 Mar 2000]