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Intermission (2003)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, touching, black comedy, melancholic, witty, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, justice, profanity, multiple storylines, eccentricity, heist, couple relations, love and romance, caper, existentialism, gangster, male female relationship, loneliness, violence, friendship, death, working class, drinking, love, boxing, hostage, kidnapping, adultery, theft, dating ...
Time:
year 2003, contemporary
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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