Emma Bolger

Intermission -- Cillian Murphy stars in this urban story about the journey in the search for true love. The film explores the nature of human lives, the damage of routines and the effects of having to change.

In America -- An Irish immigrant and his family move into a tenement building east of Harlem so he can pursue his dream of making it as an actor.

Intermission, starring Shirley Henderson, Kelly MacDonald, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy and Colin Farrell, is a raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town deliquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very (very) bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme in this indie comedy from IFC Films. An ill-timed and poorly executed break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town. There's the hapless romantic and his sex-starved best friend, the hotshot detective and the crook he's after, a young girl on the rebound with an older married man (not to mention his deserted wife), an ambitious TV producer, abandoned fiancee, preteen trouble-maker -- all unaware of how their choices are profoundly intertwined. Add a botched robbery, some brown sauce, a woman's moustache, flying rocks and dancing single seniors and you have Intermission. Colin Farrell heads the cast of this dark comedy involving a hilarious heist, a comical kidnapping and eleven intersecting story lines. Winner of the Douglas Hickox Award at the British Independent Awards and Best Irish Film at the Irish Film and Television Awards.

From master storyteller Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In The Name of the Father) comes a deeply personal and poignant tale of a poor Irish family searching for a better life In America. Through the wide-open eyes of two young heroines, Sheridan transforms a devastating human tragedy into a riveting, humor-tinged story about memory, secrets, love, loss, coming together, and starting over.