Thursday, April 07, 2005

A new review from The Movie Snob:

The Boys and Girl from County Clare (C). Also known as My Big Fat Irish Music Competition. This is a blandly pleasant movie about two estranged Irish brothers, circa 1966. The younger, Jimmy, left for Liverpool 24 years earlier, and he and John Joe haven't spoken since. Now, Jimmy is coming back with a band of musicians to compete in the all-Ireland Ceili music competition -- which John Joe's band has won the last two years. There are romantic complications when the gal who is John Joe's star fiddle player takes up with the fellow who is Jimmy's flute virtuoso. And more complications involving Jimmy and the fiddle player's mother. It's all very Irish (to the point that I couldn't even understand what they were saying sometimes), and all very predictable. Still, it's nice to see that Colm Meaney is working steadily even years after his Star Trek: The Next Generation gig ended.

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