The Tiger's Tail (2006)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 17
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Deliverance and Tailor of Panama director John Boorman returns to the director's chair for this tale of a hawkish businessman who slowly finds his life being taken over by the twin brother he never knew he had. Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) is a no-nonsense real-estate developer who isn't above greasing the politician's wheels a bit to get the permits he needs. His 20-year marriage to Jane (Kim Cattrall) has been stale for over a decade, and his adolescent son, Connor (Brian Gleeson), has most
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Cast
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Brendan Gleeson
Liam O'Leary -
Kim Cattrall
Jane O'Leary -
Ciarán Hinds
Father Andy -
Sinead Cusack
Oona -
John Kavanagh
Harry Oona's Husband -
Ruth McCabe
Large Woman -
Sean McGinley
Declan Murray -
Cathy Belton
Sally -
Briain Gleeson
Connor O'Leary -
Angeline Ball
Ursula -
Stanley Townsend
Jim Brady The Banker -
Moira Deady
Maeve Liam's Mother -
Michael McElhatton
Doctor Alex Loden -
Michael Fitzgerald
Male Nurse -
Denis Conway
Bertie Brennan -
Charlene McKenna
Samantha -
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Larry Cooney -
Ruth Lawlor
Harry's Secretary -
Eanna Mac Liam
The Beggar -
Conor Mullen
MC -
Regan O'Brien
Nurse -
Derry Power
Eddie -
Ned Dennehy
Felim -
Gary Murphy
Garda -
Martin Murphy
Garda 1 -
David Herlihy
Paul Ursula's Husband -
Aonghus Og McAnally
Garda 2 -
Mark Lambert
District Judge -
Philip O'Sullivan
Assistant Governor -
Paolo Tullio
Patrick Le Say -
Nigel Linden
Samantha's Boyfriend -
Geoff Minogue
Ambulance Driver -
Frank Gleeson
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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (17) | DVD (1)
A messy but absorbing mystery.
Amateurish technical contrivance isn't this awkward, retro failure's only deficiency.
The world recession has made this suspenseful film bitingly relevant beyond the local problems of the maiming of "The Celtic Tiger."
A real waste of a potentially interesting premise.
The Tiger's Tail, like Cassandra's Dream, prominently features a boat that is both symbol of financial attainment and emotional ruin; it also finds a master filmmaker defying the "show, don't tell" principle with almost crippling cynicism.
If there's anything about the movie that really rises above the mediocre, it's Gleeson's fantastic performance.
An almost madcap comic pace battles with thundercloud-building drama . . . The social commentary can be earnest and bald, with the mythic overtones seemingly contrived to tumble O'Leary into the class gap on his arse.
Far from being a roaring, sinewy beast with a lot of bite that the title might suggest, John Boorman's latest has more in common with a lumbering white elephant.
John Boorman's tale of doppelgängers in Dublin would like very much to spook us, but keeps tripping over its loose script and bizarre plot lines.
Not quite a car crash of a movie, Boorman's uneven black comedy is more like a fender-bender. It falls into the twilight zone between so bad it's good and so bad it's bad.
As tigers go, it's all growl and no teeth.
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"The Tiger's Tail" is a daft concoction with possibly the mother of all midlife crises that while unpredictable does also tend to rely on the odd contrivance to keep the story moving. As grounded as the movie is, it might also have been interesting if it had taken a supernatural approach. What it is concerned with is identity in a country where there is a huge disparity between rich and poor, like everywhere else. Since this is Ireland, the subject of the divided country lies just beneath the surface. As far as the divided man goes, the double thinks Liam's life could have been his but then Liam is pretty much a self made man.