Review Of Irish Drinkers Never Movie 2011
It's been a ten year journey for me getting to make this film… it's about the world I grew up in but it's also about choices, about whether or not you can, or should, escape your environment. We've been overwhelmed by the audience response to the film on the festival circuit, so we're really excited to have Screen Media now shepherding its theatrical release."
It's early autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn and 18 year-old Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is killing time, pulling off petty crimes with his street tough older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), whom he both idolizes and fears. They both live with their parents, Paddy (Stephen Lang), a longshoreman, and his long suffering wife, Margaret (Karen Allen) who puts up with Paddy's drinking and abusive behavior, especially to her and Danny.
Celebrate a belated St. Patty's Day with this gritty period flick — it's set in 1975 — about two brothers from Brooklyn who commit petty crimes to get by. When the elder (Geoff Wigdor) enlists the younger (Nick Thurston) to help him pull off a giant heist at a Rolling Stones concert, Thurston must decide where his loyalties truly lie. The movie sounds more than a little like Ben Affleck's The Town, which is fine by us, because The Town was great. Oh, and fun fact: Writer/director John Gray cut his teeth helming 14 episodes of Ghost Whisperer, that CBS show about Jennifer Love Hewitt seeing dead people.
White Irish Drinkers will be release in March 25th, 2011, this is a special movie which belong to 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, 2010 Wood Stock Film Festival- Winner Narrative Feature 2010 Gotham Independent Film Awards- Finalist Festival Genius Audience Award. it has run time about 109 minutes.
Synopsis
It's early autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn and 18-year-old Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is killing time, pulling off petty crimes with his street tough older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), whom he both idolizes and fears. He doesn't really want to be a criminal, but he doesn't share the dreams of his old friends from their working class neighborhood either. They all yearn for the culturally approved 9-to-5 Civil Service jobs with benefit packages that will carry them through weekends of beer into lazy retirement. Brian doesn't want to end up in a soul-numbing job like his buddies, but he's sure he doesn't want to be like his best friend Todd (Zachary Booth) either. Todd has betrayed their blue-collar roots by accepting a scholarship to college.