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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 delinquents, 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.

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 fiancée, 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 a "top-drawer cast" (New York Post) in this "fast-paced, hilarious" (BBCi) dark comedy involving a hilarious heist, a comical kidnapping and eleven intersecting story lines.

The power of recommendation is so strong. Sure you have the option of browsing lists of movies on the internet or even looking shelf to shelf at the movie rental location, but they cannot top someone saying, "Hey, you should check [insert movie title here] out."

I am telling you now as a friend told me, "Hey, you should check Intermission out."

You will have to pay attention to this movie, and for two reasons. One, the story is one that requires you follow or you may be lost. Two, the Irish accents are thick enough so that for my American ears it took some getting used to before I understood what they were saying.

Intermission is a funny movie that follows around different characters as they go about their lives. The story is set at a time where the breakup of man and woman has some indirect ripple effect.

I like Colin Farrell in movies when he is allowed to play roles that I figure are more natural for him; roles in which he is more obnoxious and often worse. The character he plays here certainly meets that criteria. (My favorite being his role in Tigerland.)

Buy interMission $13.46

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