Released
2003
In this gritty portrait of Dublin, several colorful characters and subplots eventually intersect: among them, small-time criminal Lehiff (Farrell) wants to shake gruff, self-aggrandizing police detective Jerry (Meaney), who's tailing him after a petty theft. Lehiff's buddy John (Murphy) has recently broken up with girlfriend Deirdre (MacDonald) — an "intermission," he calls it — and devises a scheme to set up her new man, bank manager Sam (McElhatton). Then there's Sally (Henderson), who won't accept that her love life could vastly improve if she just got rid of that hair on her upper lip.