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Release Date
• USA: Mar 19, 2004
• UK: 28 Nov 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 19, 2004
• R2: 5 Jul 2004
Budget USD 5,000,000
BoxOffice: $0.8M
Official Website:
Intermission Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence.
Running Time
1 hour, 45 minutes
Country Ireland, UK
Studio Brown Sauce Film Productions, Buena Vista International, Company of Wolves, Film Council, IFC Films, Invicta Capital, Irish Film Board, Parallel Films
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Comedy, Police, Thieves, Black Comedy, Hostage, Marriage, Infidelity, Detectives
Tagline: Life is what happens in between.
Plot: In this dramedy starring Cillian Murphy (28 DAYS LATER) and Colin Farrell (PHONE BOOTH) a series of coincidences and haphazard relationships unite a small group of people living in Dublin. The result is an alternately depressing and humorous sideways glance at the way that people make their life decisions, seen through a group of duplicitous characters each of whom has a stubborn, selfish side and a soft, vulnerable side. With plenty of off-kilter jokes running the gamut from impotence and adultery to pissing and puking, INTERMISSION delivers its crowing potshot to female moustaches--quaintly nicknamed "tash" here. Sally (Shirley Henderson) is the downtrodden young woman with the "tash," and is also the sister of Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald) who is on the rebound after a hard breakup. Her ex-boyfriend John (Murphy) works as a clerk at a department store. His coworker Oscar (David Wilmot) is an impotent shy guy who finally finds a solution with Noeleen (Deirdre O'Kane), an older woman whose husband has just left her for the much-younger Deirdre. Meanwhile the overzealous cop Jerry (Colm Meany) is busy chasing after harmless criminal Lehiff (Colin Farrell). When a shocking bus accident occurs, the characters are brought together and forced to face the reality of their tangled
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"Intermission" eventually does slam into the ground — nothing with this many different environments could stay in the lower stratosphere for so long. But even the climactic explosion of "Intermission" becomes part of the whole — the crashing and burning were anticipated and provide a lovely, toasty light.--ELVIS MITCHELL (The New York Times)
Intermission" is a well-crafted film with strong performances all around, but it's also mean-spirited, particularly in its treatment of its women, who are abused and mocked in their despair. The film's violence, while realistic, is also gratuitous, and its characterization, more often than not, skimpy and trite. There's talent behind the camera, but the story leaves a lot to be desired.  --Shlomo Schwartzberg (Boxoffice Magazine)
I found it languid and boring with no real main plot - just a bunch of subplots twisted together including one purporting to be the "main one" that followed a loser trying to get back with a girl he didn't deserve. ...At the end of the day, I found it hard to give a rat's ass about the movie. It has a handful of interesting moments, but it's mainly just self-important pretense – an attempt to be all hardcore that really rings false nine ways to Tuesday. 3.5/10-- (CHUD.com)
"Intermission" is a black comedy that some viewers may take as an assault. The disconnect between the realism of its violence and the near-slapstick tone of some of its comedy is too much to be framed within one movie.  --Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
The director John Crowley uses the warm rapport of ensemble acting to take the jaggedness out of the rough-and-tumble vivacity of digital-video moviemaking. A result is the dry-roasted and altogether compelling Irish comedy-drama ''Intermission.''--Elvis Mitchell (The New York Times)
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Trainspotting, Finding Neverland, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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In America, Heidi, 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | | |
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John Murphy
Snatch., 28 Days Later..., Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels |
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| "Intermission" is torqued to an almost shrill maximum, with violence, crime, comedy, tragedy and romance flying at you like a fusillade of sparks. It's as if Irish filmmakers Mark O'Rowe and John Crowley are determined to rattle the most jaded minds and shortest attention spans in the audience. --Desson Thomson (Washington Post)
Fast-paced, hilarious and completely convinced by its own Blarney, this is Ireland's best export since, well, Colin Farrell.  --Jamie Russell (BBC Films)
By turns funny, shocking and moving, Intermission is an extremely enjoyable comedy drama with great performances from its ensemble cast.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
A well-acted, ambitiously plotted directorial debut which will leave you with a big smile. If all romantic comedies had this much cynicism, violence and raw energy, there would be hope for the genre. 7/10--Anton Bitel (Movie Gazette)
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