Black Irish (2007)
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Michael Angarano, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Guiry, Melissa Leo, Emily VanCamp
Screenwriter: Brad Gann
Producer: Brad Gann, J. Todd Harris, Kelly Crean, Mark Donadio, Jeffrey Orenstein
Composer: John Frizzell
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 8, 2008
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Additional Release Material:
- Behind-The-Scenes
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Reviews
While the film has many well-observed moments...it ultimately suffers from its relentless piling on of crises.
Could almost be labeled a Gaelic minstrel show, so riddled is it with every conceivable cliché and stereotype ever associated with the sons of Eire.
Black Irish boasts many memorable scenes and fine characterizations but ultimately plays more like a series of snapshots come to life than as an organically satisfying story.
A small-bore Southie coming-of-age drama whose heart is just a bit bigger than its cliches.
It'll be worth watching to see if [director Brad Gann] plays to his strengths on future projects.
The problem with Black Irish is that, like those photos shifted to cover the holes, not everything is hanging in quite the right place here.
Gleeson inhabits the character in such a way that one cannot help but wonder how many Irish fathers like this he has personally known.
It’s too sincere and thoughtful to be immediately dismissed. But it is terribly frustrating viewing: so much time and creative energy spent making a movie that, in one form or another, the audience has already seen.
A drismal drama rather reminiscent of Angela's Ashes, especially in terms of maintaining a relentlessly pessimistic and morose tone.
The difficulties of coming-of-age in an Irish-American family with a violent older brother and a self-destructive father.
Writer-director-producer Brad Gann's tale of growing up in blue-collar South Boston features a strong central performance, but it doesn't miss a cliche of hardscrabble adolescence.
The blarney isn't the only thing that's thick in writer-director Brad Gann's Black Irish.
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