Donnybrook

Name: Donnybrook
Genre: Drama
Released: February 15, 2019
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Adam Bartley, Andi Gudgeon, Anita Farmer Bergman, Chris Browning, Dara Tiller

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IFC Films | Release Date: February 15, 2019 | NR

Starring: Adam Bartley, Andi Gudgeon, Anita Farmer Bergman, Chris Browning, Dara Tiller, David Myers Gregory, Frank Grillo, James Badge Dale, James Hébert, Jamie Bell, Jennifer Joplin, Judy McQueen Bauer, Kevin Crowley, Margaret Qualley, Michael Agee, Pat Healy, Rhyan Elizabeth Hanavan, Valerie Jane Parker

Summary: Three desperate souls must fight their way out of a dead-end world in this bracing, gut-punching glimpse into America’s dark underbelly. Earl (Jamie Bell) is a struggling ex-marine and father determined to make a better life for his family—no matter what it takes. Angus (Frank Grillo) is a violent, unhinged drug dealer who leaves a trail ofThree desperate souls must fight their way out of a dead-end world in this bracing, gut-punching glimpse into America’s dark underbelly. Earl (Jamie Bell) is a struggling ex-marine and father determined to make a better life for his family—no matter what it takes. Angus (Frank Grillo) is a violent, unhinged drug dealer who leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake. And Delia (Margaret Qualley) is a haunted woman who will do anything to escape a life of crime she can no longer bear. In their kill-or-be-killed world, all roads lead to the Donnybrook: an illicit backwoods cage match where bare-knuckled fighters brawl for a shot at a $100,000 prize. It’s either a last-ditch chance at redemption—or a death sentence. [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Tim Sutton

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: NR

Runtime: 101 min

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The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Sep 12, 2018

A stunning, often flooring masterwork about desperation, writer/director Tim Sutton’s, “Donnybrook” is a brutal elegy for those living on the forgotten fringes of America. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Sep 12, 2018

Filmmaker Tim Sutton elicits pitiless performances from Frank Grillo and Jamie Bell playing two very different criminals on a collision course, and the film exudes a grungy, B-movie ethos in keeping with its scrappy, resourceful characters. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Feb 13, 2019

Sutton’s tricky balance of B-movie caricatures and gloomy expressionism doesn’t always match up, but that very discordance speaks to the potency of its themes. Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Feb 11, 2019

The film knots several strands of new-millennium despair into something that very nearly approximates greatness in its first half. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Feb 13, 2019

Here, Sutton is working with actual characters, played by professional actors, and his instinct is to flatten them as much as possible. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Feb 13, 2019

The cynicism of Donnybrook is overpowering, but unfocused. It’s easy to see why some people would react strongly to its ugly tale of misery and violence, and yet without context and contrast, without making statements beyond “the world sure does suck,” Sutton’s film feels frustratingly hollow. It makes an impact but leaves no impression. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Feb 13, 2019

If you’re looking for a poverty-porn fix, Donnybrook ought to hit the spot. If not, you’ll likely find this a pointless exercise in gratuitous violence that imagines itself deep because it’s got an opera-heavy score. Read full review

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Tyranian

Aug 11, 2019

Fairly brutal film with decent performances though slow-paced and somewhat uneventful.

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Nov 2, 2019

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Interviewed by Amy Taubin for "Film Comment", Tim Sutton said, 'Where the movie comes from for me is a combination of early Malick, the end of "Taxi Driver", and "Apocalypse Now".' Keith Uhlich of "The Hollywood Reporter" defined this mixture "repellent", "a movie to which the(Mauro Lanari)
Interviewed by Amy Taubin for "Film Comment", Tim Sutton said, 'Where the movie comes from for me is a combination of early Malick, the end of "Taxi Driver", and "Apocalypse Now".' Keith Uhlich of "The Hollywood Reporter" defined this mixture "repellent", "a movie to which the term 'derivative' entirely applies", adding 'the lurid shock/schlock of William Faulkner in "Sanctuary" mode.'… Expand

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