More a creative collaboration than a simple page-to-screen adaptation, Neil Jordan's finest film since THE COMPANY OF WOLVES takes the irrepressible hero (or is it heroine?) of Patrick McCabe's uproarious 1998 novel on a series of picaresque misadventures, many of which Jordan and McCabe have written specifically for the screen. Left on a church doorstep in the small Irish village of Tyreelin by his unmarried mother, and raised by draconian barmaid Ma Braden (Ruth McCabe), Patrick Braden (Cillian Murphy) always knew two things about his origins. His father is the town priest, Father Bernard (Liam Neeson), and his mother, who worked as the good Father's housemaid befo...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
129 mins