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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 22983
Released: October 19, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Fifty-four characters and eleven storylines intersect with "dazzling" (San Francisco Chronicle) results in this "raucously funny and compellingly gritty" (BBCi) comedy. An ingenious tale of small-town delinquents, shady cops and warring lovers reunited by a bizarre kidnapping plan, Intermission is a dark, edgy, "very funny study of love, lust and petty crime" (Sight & Sound)!
Description of Intermission:
The rough-edged vitality of contemporary Irish filmmaking is readily apparent in Intermission, a deliriously ambitious black comedy in which 54 characters and 11 plotlines compete for consistently impressive screen-time. In a dazzling display of audacity, screenwriter Mark O'Rowe and first-time director John Crowley jump from one plot to another, tangling their characters in an infectious series of intersecting events, shifting from scenes of brutal violence, poignant compassion, and richly dark humor, and somehow managing to make it all fit together in a miraculously coherent tapestry of romance, crime, and authentic Dublin atmosphere. Colin Farrell and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine alumnus Colm Meaney are the familiar stars here, and they're in peak form on native soil, but the entire cast shines in equal measure, all of them playing malcontents striving for something better in a world that's simultaneously harsh and hilarious. From start to finish, Intermission is so full of surprises that you'll want to see it twice, just to marvel at the way its puzzle fits together. --Jeff Shannon
Intermission Reviews:
Can I get better service, NOT 
2008-09-30 - I was very pleased with the movie Intermission. I received my product within (2) days and to order it was effortless. 2 Thumbs Up.
A Wonderful Place 
2008-09-21 - Enjoyed the interaction of characters and I thought Colin Farrell was his usual best. It all makes sense in the end and getting there is half the fun. A must see/ a must buy film.
Intermission
2007-07-20 - "Intermission" is a colorful, gritty mosaic of intersecting lives in Dublin, populated by parted lovers, petty thieves, and macho policemen. Director Crowley overlays all the silly, sordid goings-on with a palpable affection for his various characters, which makes the black comedy go down easier. Meaney stands out in a hilarious turn as an egotistical, street-hardened cop who wants his own reality show. Smart, fast and fun, you'll enjoy sitting through this "Intermission."
Nothing original, but good fun
2007-06-21 - Although this movie was advertised as being a new break out independent movie, it's not as original as the filmmakers would have you believe. It's main gimmick is that it features a bunch of different stories which intersect with each other at various points, such as you have already seen in "Love Actually" or "Crash" or a million different other movies.
That being said, it's not a bad little movie. I had quite a few laughs during the course of it, and, although it's not a new trick, it is always fun to see the stories intersect with each other.
Because of the cynical take this film has on love and relationships, it struck me as kind of a darker version of "Love Actually". However most of the characters still arrive at some sort of a happy ending.
As a former Star Trek fan, I particularly enjoyed Colm Meaney playing a tough guy police man with a fondness for Celtic music. Funny thing: Colm Meaney's Star Trek character, Miles O'Brien, was easily the most bland and boring character in both "The Next Generation" and "Deep Space Nine." But Colm Meaney himself can be a great actor, as seen in this movie, and also "Snapper" (another independent Irish movie that I saw on Eion's recommendation a few years back). Obviously the Star Trek writers did not know how to use him to his fullest potential.
LONDONDERRY HILLS COP 
2007-04-16 - John Crowley's first movie, INTERMISSION, earned four IFTA awards, the Irish equivalent to the Oscars, in 2003 : Best Irish Film, Best Director, Best Script (Mark O'Rowe) and Best Supporting Actor (David Wilmot). Most of the actors of the film are well-known to the international audience, Cillian Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition) Murphy, Brian F. Million Dollar Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition) O'Byrne, David Laws of Attraction Wilmot, Kelly Nanny McPhee (Widescreen Edition) Macdonald, Colm Con Air Meaney, and, of course, Colin Farrell had already crossed the Atlantic ocean when they were brought together to shoot INTERMISSION in Ireland.
INTERMISSION is a kind of serious comedy. I mean serious because certain scenes of the movie wouldn't take place in a light family comedy. I'm referring here particularly to the first scene of the film when Colin Farrell, before robbing her, hits the face of a charming young girl he had seduced, or to the interventions of the cop Colm Meaney whose Dirty Harry behaviour is more than questionable. Funny, yes INTERMISSION is funny at times but the film tends rather most of the time to the social description of today Ireland.
A DVD zone back to homeland.
