Synopsis
Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the movies. That is until he meets Trudy, a woman who is gregarious and adventurous beyond his imagination. His entire persona changes as he becomes enveloped in her carefree and sometimes dangerous world.
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Cast
- Peter McDonaldBrendan
- Flora MontgomeryTrudy
- Pauline McLynnNuala
- Don WycherleyNiall
- Maynard EziashiEdgar
- Eileen WalshSiobhan
- Barry CassinHeadmaster
- Niall O'BrienJudge
- Rynagh O'GradyLynn
- Ali WhiteMary
Recommendations
- 75
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a winning little movie about two people who get together, though they have no business getting together. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It has that unwound Roddy Doyle humor; the laughs don't hit you over the head, but tickle you behind the knee. - 67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
There's still enough of Doyle's hilariously foul dialogue and outrageous, culture-shocked Irish characters for the film to be a good bit of fun. - 60
Film.com
About two lives in which transformation is a constant, destabilizing threat to freedom and sanity. That's a very provocative premise, though halfway through the movie Doyle and Walsh abandon its potential to go for easy laughs. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
McDonald and Montgomery are fun to watch in this mildly amusing Irish romantic comedy. - 50
New York Post
A too-cute-by-half Irish romantic comedy that's overloaded with movie references that begin with the title. - 50
Salon
It's a movie almost doomed to be called "refreshing," in the way that the word is used to excuse the game but amateurish presentation of a quirky premise. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Struggles to achieve a giddy eccentricity that never fully emerges.