Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 35
The dramatic aspects of Rory O'Shea Was Here veer into mawkish, formulaic sentiment, which undercuts the characters' individuality.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 12
The dramatic aspects of Rory O'Shea Was Here veer into mawkish, formulaic sentiment, which undercuts the characters' individuality.
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Two guys facing more challenges than most people learn some valuable lessons about life and love in this comedy drama. Michael Connolly (Steven Robertson) is a young man in his early twenties who suffers from cerebral palsy; confined to a wheelchair, Michael's speech is unintelligible to all but a handful of people, and his situation has made him shy and withdrawn as he spends his days at a home for the disabled in Dublin. One day, a new arrival moves in at the home -- Rory O'Shea (James
Feb 4, 2005 Wide
Jun 14, 2005
Focus Features
All Critics (70) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (35) | DVD (10)
It addresses the essential human need for dignity, for freedom, for mastery over one's life.
The script, despite doses of irreverent humour, feels manipulative...
Funny and moving, and more entertaining than some of the movies you are considering this weekend.
For all its noble intentions and vigorous performances, never transcends the claustrophobic character study.
Sweet and deeply moving.
By all outward appearance and promotional literature, this movie wishes to depict the lives of seriously handicapped people in as real and accurate a way as possible. So why does it resort to some of the most insultingly lame clichés imaginable?
A modest, relatively low-budget affair graced with strong stars and sharp dialogue.
Director Damien O'Donnell has achieved a warm and uplifting movie which is marred only by a brief drift into melodrama in the middle.
A technical mess. The final version looks like an unfinished cut.
Full marks for intent; barely a pass for execution.
O'Donnell should be lauded for offering a sensitive portrayal of disabled people without ever being patronizing.
Rory O'Shea is half sitcom, half sap.
Spiky-haired, handsome MacAvoy shows us how to be audacious and prominent without moving more than his face and two fingers.
narrowly focused drama
Irish drama about disability, interdependence and self-determination is nothing new, but it's nicely made, with two great performances.
Tries and fails to juggle humor, sentimentality and political correctness with its punk war cry.
Rory O'Shea, challenging and difficult to watch at times, is to be applauded for taking us about as close to reality as a situation like this allows.
Randle Patrick McMurphy in a motorized wheelchair.
Perhaps a better moniker would have been One Flew Over My Left Foot.
Nobody will be shocked to learn people with cerebral palsy are people too
This problematic individual is quickly reduced to symbolic chump change. Pale martyrdom ensues, as he's dulled down and sanctified according to trite Hollywood formula. Yawn.
How ironic that a movie that claims to assert independence for the disabled cannot set its protagonists free for even a second.
Tries and fails to juggle humor, sentimentality and political correctness with its punk war cry.
Since I am disabled I do not feel as guilty rating this movie on the low end. It was predictable and little new to the plight of the disabled was offered. The sweet story at the heart of this film is lost in the "look at me act" disabled. Steven Robertson does and excellent job.... but I get tired and frustrated
December 18, 2010Super Reviewer
On one hand, I think I should be cynical about this film: suggest it is emotionally manipulative and functions on the "strength" of its cliches. After all, it features two men with severe disabilities and attempts to prove the thesis that we should all carpe diem. These are not new themes, nor is it new to
November 13, 2010
Super Reviewer
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