Intermission

Name: Intermission
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Released: March 19, 2004
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Colin Farrell, Kelly Macdonald

2004

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DreamWorks Distribution | Release Date: March 19, 2004

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Colin Farrell, Kelly Macdonald

Summary: A 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)

Director: John Crowley

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime

Runtime: 105 min

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Ruthe Stein

A breed apart from anything coming off the Hollywood assembly line or, for that matter, from the saccharine romances Britain has lately produced. Read full review

Roger Ebert

That it succeeds is some kind of miracle; there's enough material here for three bad films, and somehow it becomes one good one. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Irish playwright Mark O'Rowe, who wrote the script, has an admirable sense of dramatic proportion that suits his intertwining stories; theater director John Crowley, making his film debut, has a sure hand with his actors; and an excellent cast enlivens this web of romantic and criminal intrigue, set in a gray suburb of Dublin. R. Read full review

Carrie Rickey

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. Read full review

Karen Karbo

A sort of low-down, dirty-faced Irish cousin of "Love Actually," the glossy smarm replaced by a jittery raunchiness. Read full review

Scott Foundas

Beyond that surface grit, Intermission is still a fairly saccharine collage of self-redemptive gestures and happy endings that, true to its title, only fitfully compels. Read full review

William Arnold

Unfortunately, this latest effort is so mean-spirited and nasty that you wish Farrell hadn't bothered. Read full review

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FilmQueen

Oct 29, 2015

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.

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shellview

Jun 7, 2013

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 inWhat 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.… Expand

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PatC.

May 1, 2006

Profile of the segment of Irish society unable to construct sentences without using four-letter words. That tends to limit the characters' ability to articulate their negativity, makes them one-dimensional, and leads to other problems that renders the film nearly unwatchable, in spite Profile of the segment of Irish society unable to construct sentences without using four-letter words. That tends to limit the characters' ability to articulate their negativity, makes them one-dimensional, and leads to other problems that renders the film nearly unwatchable, in spite of a compelling opening scene.… Expand

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