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The Belly of the Whale

2018

Lewis MacDougall, Michael Smiley, Peter Coonan, Pat Shortt ...

Drama After cutting loose from his foster home, misfit teenager Joey Moody (Lewis MacDougall) returns home in a futile bid to reopen his family's crumbling caravan park. When Joey accidentally burns down Ronald Tanner's (Pat Shortt) campervan, he is forced to find the cash to repay him. The desperate pair, bonded together in misfortune, devise a plan to rob the local amusement arcade, the domain of local politician Gits Hegarty (Michael ... [+]

	Author	Review
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"The actors do their jobs. The camerawork is suitably grimy. It’s not enough (...) It flails around in too many directions (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Ireland	Alan Corr RTÉ	"Pat Shortt is the best thing in this uneven tale (...) Bushe’s film ends up disappointingly unrealistic (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"There's just not enough here to keep it from being anything other than just OK (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"A bits and pieces film, full of loose ends and stray plot lines (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A darkly humorous, intriguing debut which trips over its own ambition but continuously tries to right itself. (...) Bushe has a tendency to sacrifice clarity for visual flourishes"	NEU

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