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Intermission (Movie)Intermission is a 2003 motion picture directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several story-lines crossing over one another during the course of the film. The running time is 106 minutes. Synopsis John Crowley directed and Mark ORowe wrote the screenplay for this movie, set in Dublin, Ireland, consisting of entirely homegrown actors on their home turf. Colin Farrell, now established as a star in Hollywood through his performances in movies such as Phone Booth, is seen right at the beginning. Like many of the characters seen in the movie, Lehiff (Farrell) has a talent for trouble with the law, hence he sings the song, I Fought the Law (written by Sonny Curtis), at the end of the movie. His character is therefore incomplete without doing something criminal, and, indeed, many, if not all, of the characters in the movie seem totally dysfunctional and as incomplete as he is, albeit in their differing ways. Lehiffs nemesis, Garda (police) detective Jerry Lynch (Colm Meaney of and Star Trek: DS9 fame), feels incomplete without showing himself off as a man who constantly fights the scumbags on Dublins streets, and enlists the help of Ben Campion (Tomas OSuilleabhain), an ambitious film-maker and the bane of his go-softer boss who considers Lynch too nasty a subject to be shown on a mainstream docusoap series on Irish terrestrial TV. Ben is told to focus his attention on Sally (Shirley Henderson) who helped passengers after their double-decker bus spectacularly crashes on its side. Sally herself feels incomplete because of her Ronnie (moustache) and bitter because of her sister Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald) flaunting her new boyfriend, Sam (Michael McElhatton), a bank manager who has left his wife of 14 years, Noeleen (Deirdre OKane), who, feeling totally shocked, questions her own self-worth as a woman and a wife. Deirdre had been the girlfriend of John (Cillian Murphy), whose arch-nemesis is the overbearing supermarket manager Mr. Henderson (Owen Roe), who feels incomplete without feeling good about lording it over his minions. John feels utterly devastated and incomplete without Deirdre and will do anything to win her back, even though he initially turns to Noeleen, of all people, whom he meets at a singles club for the middle-aged, owing to his need for companionship despite his earlier hypocritical criticism of his ex-girlfriend to her face for doing much the same thing with Sam, upon whom he turns his hatred in a heated phone conversation when he wants to speak to her. He then gets himself involved in an absurd plan: kidnap Sam, force him to go to his bank, and get ransom money. This plan involves Mick (Brian F. OByrne), the man who had driven the bus which crashed, and Lehiff. As might be expected, things go awry when Sam, who has the money, gets assaulted by an enraged Noeleen on the street, so Mick and John flee the scene without their money. Mick feels incomplete without gaining his revenge on the boy, Philip (Taylor Molloy), who had lobbed the stone into the windshield, causing him to swerve and crash the bus he was driving (and for which he got fired). However, again things do not go quite his way, and he ends up learning a bitter lesson. As for Lehiff, Lynch, who feels incomplete without nailing him, corners him in an open field, and the scene is set for a confrontation that ends in a way nobody expects. Humor is an element that runs right throughout the movie as the characters have to sort out their otherwise incomplete lives as they have to deal with the harsh realities of being in love, out of love, in a job that one hates, suddenly out of a job, sticking a finger up at authority, taking the law into ones own hands, each wanting a better deal in life than he or she can get at present. In all, it is a movie about ordinary people briefly jolted out of their ordinary lives. Cast Technical Details - Director: John Crowley
- Writing Credit: Mark O'Rowe
- Original Music: John Murphy
- Release Date: 29th August 2003, (Ireland)
- Runtime: 106 mins
- BBFC Rating: 18
- MPAA Rating: R
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