family drama directed
by : Brad Gann featuring
: Brendan Gleeson - Michael Angarano - Tom Guiry - Emily Van Camp
- Michael Rispoti running
time : 1 hour 34 minutes
A young man struggles
to grow up with principles as his family begins to self-destruct around
him in this coming of age drama. Cole McKay (Michael Angarano) is a boy
in his middle-teens growing up in an Irish-Catholic family in Boston. While
Cole has dreams of playing major league baseball some day, his parents
Desmond (Brendan Gleeson) and Margaret (Melissa Leo) are blind to his ambitions,
and his older brother Terry (Tom Guiry) is a petty criminal who is unwittingly
drawing Cole into his orbit. While Margaret is obsessed with projecting
an image that the McKay family are happy and God-fearing folk, Desmond
has been sinking deeper into depression ever since he lost his job, and
his marriage is slowly but surely falling apart. The family's pride takes
a body blow when Cole's teenage sister Kathleen (Emily Van Camp) discovers
she's pregnant, but Cole decides it's time he took on some adult responsibilities,
and gets himself a part-time job at a restaurant. Black Irish was the first
directorial effort for screenwriter Brad Gann.
