This joyous wee movie tells the story of Sergeant Garry Boyle a member of the Irish Garda (Police) in a remote town in Galway. Sgt. Boyle has a very subversive sense of humor, a confrontational personality, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international drug-smuggling ring that has brought an FBI Agent to his door. What unfolds is an unpredictable and exhilarating sort-of-cops and robber story.
This superbly irreverent comedy is the debut feature of writer/director John Michael McDonough (playwright Martin McDonough’s brother) but it is the gifted cast that makes it such an hilarious treat. Especially the incomparable Brendan Gleason whose flippant deadpan performance is priceless.
It was one of my favorite finds at Sundance this year, a sheer job and totally unmissable.
★★★★★★★★★
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