Adam & Paul (2004)

Highly Recommended

Ireland

Feature Film

Director: Leonard Abrahamson

Writer: Mark O'Halloran

Cinematographer: James Mather

Composer: Hugh Drumm, Stephen Rennicks

Cast: Mark O'Halloran, Tom Murphy, Louise Lewis, Gary Egan, Deirdre Molloy, Mary Murray, Paul Roe, Anita Reeves

Two down-on-their-luck heroin addicts – homeless, friendless, drugless, and penniless – trawl the streets of Dublin, on the day of their friend’s funeral, in search of drugs, money, or something to steal in order to get a fix, but unfortunately fate appears to be against them, in Abrahamson’s blackly comic, pathos laden film, which often feels like – as much as anything else – a (grimly brilliant) homage to laurel & Hardy. Iain.Stott