A cheerfully morose tour of the
other Emerald Isle, the Ireland of rundown pubs, dead-end jobs and nasty lads busting heads in back rooms. Sad-sack Git (Peter McDonald) is fresh from doing a stint in jail in place of his drunken old dad, and is
in the midst of a heart-to-heart with best friend Anto (David Wilmot), who stole Git's girl (Antoine Byrne) but feels ever so bad about it. Next thing Git knows, he's rescuing Anto from a bunch of seedy tough guys who answer to local crime boss Mr. French (Tony Doyle), and according to some
archaic code of criminal honor, that means he owes Mr. French something. So Git finds himself paired up with portly Bunny Kelly (...
Released:
1998
Rated:
R
Length:
107 mins