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  • Breakfast On Pluto (2005)
    Review preview for Breakfast On Pluto

    Breakfast On Pluto's tone is a discomforting mixture of comedy and tragedy.

    Richard Mellor · 4 out of 5
    An Irish transvestite, searching for the mother who abandoned him, is caught up in terrorist violence and hilarious goings on in London.
  • A Boy Called Dad (2009)
    Review preview for A Boy Called Dad

    Sentimentality is rough hewn and barely sophisticated, given the storyline, but the performances are first rate.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Kid on the run with baby son.
  • Small Engine Repair (2006)
    Review preview for Small Engine Repair

    There are issues here and there are positive messages if you care to look, but the darkness before dawn lingers like a late mist and subplots tend to remain unresolved.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    A forklift driver strives reluctantly to become a country-and-western singer on the pub circuit in Northern Ireland.

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