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  • 2001
  • Shooting Gallery
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2001
  • Shooting Gallery
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Peter McDonald and Flora Montgomery make an insanely appealing mismatched couple in this fast and fresh romantic comedy for movie maniacs. He wants to show her the glories of pre-Star Wars cinema. She wants to teach him her burglary skills. Kieron Walsh directs from a riotously funny script by Roddy Doyle. (Shooting Gallery)

Directed By: Kieron J. Walsh

Written By: Roddy Doyle

  • 2001
  • Shooting Gallery
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2001
  • Shooting Gallery
  • 1 h 34 m

When Brendan Met Trudy

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Summary Peter McDonald and Flora Montgomery make an insanely appealing mismatched couple in this fast and fresh romantic comedy for movie maniacs. He wants to show her the glories of pre-Star Wars cinema. She wants to teach him her burglary skills. Kieron Walsh directs from a riotously funny script by Roddy Doyle. (Shooting Gallery)

Directed By: Kieron J. Walsh

Written By: Roddy Doyle

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
53
40% Positive
10 Reviews
48% Mixed
12 Reviews
12% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
53
40% Positive
10 Reviews
48% Mixed
12 Reviews
12% Negative
3 Reviews

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83
The movie luxuriates in cinema references while laughing at its own fetishes -- a neat talent.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
75
This is only a movie. But a good one. May Roddy Doyle give us many more.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
70
Far from the first movie in which a fearless woman coaxes the inner tiger crouched inside a mild-mannered milquetoast to spring into action, but it is one of the most charming.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Poses as the story of a wild, eccentric love match but is really about a match made in limbo.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
50
A too-cute-by-half Irish romantic comedy that's overloaded with movie references that begin with the title.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
40
Intermittently funny movie. Almost every scene recreates or alludes to a Hollywood or foreign classic.
By Emanuel Levy FULL REVIEW
20
Doyle loves bad jokes and his story has no rhyme or reason, dissolving in its last third into a bungled heist and jailhouse face-off.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company BBC Film, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Collins Avenue, Deadly Films, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Release Date Mar 9, 2001
Duration 1 h 34 m
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Tagline His heart wasn't all she stole . . .
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Awards

Irish Film and Television Awards
• 3 Nominations
Las Palmas Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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