SummaryA raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very (very) bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. (IFC Films)
Directed By:John Crowley
Written By:Mark O'Rowe
Intermission
Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
67% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
26% Mixed
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7% Negative
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100
A breed apart from anything coming off the Hollywood assembly line or, for that matter, from the saccharine romances Britain has lately produced.
80
Stupid camera shenanigans aside, theater veteran Crowley deftly directs his large, stellar cast, and playwright-cum-screenwriter Mark O'Rowe serves up a wild knot of character arcs pitched somewhere among the neighborhoods of Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Danny Boyle.
75
Here, love and violence are random, everyone's a fool for love, and tomfoolery often has a shocking twist. And every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
75
It’s tempting to summarize this Irish picture as a working-class version of "Love Actually," and indeed, the hardscrabble lives of most of its amorously unfulfilled characters go a long way in making it a whole lot less emetic than Richard Curtis’s hugfest.
63
"Love, Actually" meets "Trainspotting" in Intermission, an edgy Irish romantic comedy that deftly juggles a dozen interconnected story lines.
50
Like many stylish, whipcrack American and British indies made in the wake of Quentin Tarantino and "Trainspotting," the film gets off on the same anything-can-happen storytelling brio, which at least keeps things lively. But without any resonant characters or ideas, it's all empty calories.
25
Unfortunately, this latest effort is so mean-spirited and nasty that you wish Farrell hadn't bothered.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
64% Positive
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29% Mixed
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7% Negative
1 Rating
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Oct 29, 2015
6
This movie has some really funny moments and all in all I would say I quite enjoyed it. Yet I am not sure why but sometimes I was bored, that's why I don't give a score of 7.
Jun 7, 2013
4
What started off as an interesting anything-can-happen film ended up as a contrived story with no surprises. Excellent acting and music with some funny references, as they say in the U.S., but not enough to carry a very thin story. The saddest is that there is not one likable person in the whole movie from an annoying quadriplegic who hangs in the local pub to a repressed housewife whose husband has left her for a younger woman and all characters in between I was hard pressed to care about any of them.
Production Company:
- Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Brown Sauce Film Productions
- Company of Wolves
- Parallel Film Productions
- Portman Film
- UK Film Council
Release Date:Mar 19, 2004
Duration:1 h 45 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Small town delinquents. Shady cops. Pretty good girls. And very, very, bad boys.
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Awards
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 4 Wins & 12 Nominations
Galway Film Fleadh
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
