A tedious shaggy-dog story that works better as a travelogue of faraway places than the quirky road picture it tries so hard to be. Sick and tired of life in the concrete Dublin suburb he calls home, young and rebellious Finbar Flynn (Jonathan Rhys
Meyers) scales an unfinished highway overpass and disappears, to the astonishment of the girl Finbar seduced and abandoned (Lorraine Pilkington) and his best friend Danny (Luke Griffin). Three years later, Finbar is a legend, his disappearance a persistent puzzle in a dying town where there's
little better to do than speculate; he's even become the subject of an international hit song and video. But for Finbar's distraug...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
103 mins