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Movie Info

Two teenage boys from Cork steal bicycles and ride off on a quest to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7,000,000 euros.

Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Peter Foott
Producer:

Peter Foott, Julie Ryan
Writer:

Peter Foott
Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 4, 2017
Production Co:

Irish Film Board, Vico Films

Cast & Crew

Ciaran Bermingham
Flynn

Alex Murphy
Conor

Dominic MacHale
Healy

Shane Casey
Billy Murphy

Hilary Rose
Mairead

Chris Walley
Jock

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Critic Reviews for The Young Offenders

All Critics (23) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (23)

It's the most perceptive comic portrait of the adolescent male since The Inbetweeners, but with a naturalism that is unexpectedly disarming.

January 16, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Wendy Ide
Observer (UK)
This exuberantly daft teenage comedy has some similarities to The Inbetweeners but with a kinder, gentler wit.

January 13, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kate Muir
Times (UK)
An incredibly enjoyable experience that never falters in keeping you invested.

January 13, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Lena Hanafy
Little White Lies
Plays like a gene-splicing experiment involving Bill Forsyth and Ken Loach.

January 12, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
Writer-director Peter Foott fills the film with slapstick and with plenty of scabrous, witty dialogue.

January 11, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Geoffrey Macnab
Independent (UK)
A lovely lo-fi charmer.

January 9, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Tom Huddleston
Time Out
The revelation of this film isn't the pseudo-criminal horseplay, which goes more than a little off the rails in the zany department by the climax. It's the wild relationship between Conor and Jock.

April 12, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Don Shanahan
Every Movie Has a Lesson
It's fortunate that our current boom era of streaming services can give second life to foreign films like this, ones that audiences stateside might otherwise have missed.

March 15, 2019 | Full Review…

Scott Hines
Decider
It's not funny enough to rise above its clumsy story, but it has something rare in movies of its type: a good heart, which it demonstrates in surprisingly sweet scenes between Conor and his mum (Hilary Rose).

January 17, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)
It's the bromantic banter between the hapless, but touchingly steadfast heroes and the moments of bleakly bruising slapstick that make this impeccably paced saga so genial and enjoyable.

January 13, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

David Parkinson
Radio Times
It's energetic and silly, but also rather sweet, smartly written and directed by Peter Foott and, at times, very funny indeed.

January 13, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Brian Viner
Daily Mail (UK)
The story itself is slight and runs out of steam long before the arrival of a nailgun-wielding drug dealer but the script sparkles and Murphy and Walley are stars in the making as small-time crooks and big-time charmers.

January 13, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Allan Hunter
Daily Express (UK)