Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Colin FarrellLehiff
- Colm MeaneyJerry Lynch
- Kelly MacdonaldDeirdre
- Cillian MurphyJohn
- Brían F. O'ByrneMick
- Shirley HendersonSally
- David WilmotOscar
- Michael McElhattonSam
- Deirdre O'KaneNoeleen
- Ger RyanMaura
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
The first Irish creation I've seen in ages to pull off the high-difficulty feat of trafficking in grit, drollery, and emotion without turning to blarney as a crutch. - 80
The New York Times
Altogether compelling. - 70
Variety
Borderline grungy but highly entertaining comedy-drama. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
The film's uniformly excellent performances are a delight, and fans of Irish actor Farrell (whose pitch-perfect American accent has served him well in Hollywood) can hear both his natural inflections and his singing voice. - 63
New York Post
"Love, Actually" meets "Trainspotting" in Intermission, an edgy Irish romantic comedy that deftly juggles a dozen interconnected story lines. - 50
The A.V. Club
Like many stylish, whipcrack American and British indies made in the wake of Quentin Tarantino and "Trainspotting," the film gets off on the same anything-can-happen storytelling brio, which at least keeps things lively. But without any resonant characters or ideas, it's all empty calories. - 50
L.A. Weekly
Beyond that surface grit, Intermission is still a fairly saccharine collage of self-redemptive gestures and happy endings that, true to its title, only fitfully compels. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
It's surprising that so much material, so many moods, and such an interesting cast end up making such a small, unmemorable splash.
