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Black Irish

Filled with guilt, redemption, family ties
Rating: 2.0 stars
November 1, 2006 2:31:14 PM

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Brad Gann’s feature debut, this year’s Boston Irish Film Festival opener, taps into some of the same neighborhood themes as The Departed: guilt, redemption, family ties. Or are they clichés? Cole (Michael Angarano) is the good brother, a cringing mass of embarrassment and repression with a blazing fastball and a supposed vocation for the priesthood. Elder brother Terry (Tom Guiry) wants to drag Cole into a life of drugs and crime. Sis Kathleen (Emily VanCamp) is pregnant and out of the picture, sent away by would-be lace-curtain Irish mom Margaret (Melissa Leo). As if dad Desmond (Brendan Gleeson) — alcoholic, ineffectual, tyrannical, unemployed — didn’t provide enough shame. You know there’s going to be a big game somewhere in this, as well as reconciliations in the intensive-care unit. A plus are the two or three scenes of genuine heartbreak.

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