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White Irish Drinkers
Directed by
John Gray
and
Melissa Jo Peltier
R
2011
1h 49m
Drama
,
Thriller
6.7
47%
71%
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Brooklyn, 1975: two brothers looking for a way out of their working-class neighborhood make a pact to rob a local theater on the night of a Rolling Stones concert.
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Cast of White Irish Drinkers
Nick Thurston
Brian Leary
Geoffrey Wigdor
Danny Leary
Karen Allen
Margaret
Stephen Lang
Patrick
Peter Riegert
Whitey
Leslie Murphy
Shauna Friel
Zachary Booth
Todd McKay
Robbie Sublett
Ray Stone (as Robbie Collier Sublett)
Anthony Amorim
Young Danny
Daniel Carpenter
Guy in Bar
Regan Mizrahi
Little Brian
White Irish Drinkers Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Despite the cliches that push every scene forward, there's an unexpected appeal to John Gray's modest drama, emanating from its center.
Newark Star-Ledger
Anthony Venutolo
The basic outline of the plot, built around a promised local concert by the Rolling Stones - well, if you don't know where that story is headed, you haven't seen as many movies as I think you have.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A movie that one watches with the sense of pushing it up a hill.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The clichs are what make "White Irish Drinkers" a drearily predictable bout...
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Putting profane adjectives in front of every other noun in dialogue that wants desperately to sound streetwise doesn't make it feel authentic if the other words spoken by the characters are arranged into orderly little blocks of exposition.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Saturated with atmosphere and strongly acted, the movie is a far more resonant and convincing portrait of working-class life than the recent awards-bait phoniness that called itself "The Fighter."
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Writer-director John Gray digs into his own background to create the ardent and atmospheric White Irish Drinkers. The close, cramped intimacy of this film is so real it stings.
Observer
Rex Reed
I was immensely impressed with Mr. Thurston, an appealing actor with intelligence and self-assurance who is going places, and writer-director John Gray, who has already arrived with a bang.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
All the good intentions in the world can't save "White Irish Drinkers'' from playing like the baldest of retreads.
Boston Herald
Amy Amatangelo
Here's a 1970s-set film nostalgic for the days young Irish-American men addressed each other as "ya' hump."
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Couching clichs in self-conscious nostalgia does nothing to lessen their corniness in White Irish Drinkers, a coming-of-age saga notable only for its staleness.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
Frequently enough at the movies, an isolated scene can take place in which an actor who may or may not be the lead steals the whole film through naked emotion, or power, or eloquence. Mr. Lang certainly has one here.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
John Gray's Noo Yawker indie is a stubborn throwback to the Sundance-fueled, ethnic-neighborhood movie of the early '90s, when every film-school grad with a fresh head full of Mean Streets decided he would be the next Scorsese.
Variety
Joe Leydon
A modestly engaging domestic drama that earns few points for originality but rewards aud attention with persuasive performances, outbursts of robust humor and a vivid yet understated evocation of time and place.
The Hollywood Reporter
Ray Bennett
It's a sparkling piece of entertainment that deserves a wide audience.
Ebert Presents At The Movies
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
I normally kind of like these sort of modest genre movies, but this is just marinating in its own mediocrity.
Christian Science Monitor
Andy Klein
Veteran TV director John Gray brings little or nothing new to conflicts we've seen in an endless stream of movies, including Saturday Night Fever and (to go straight to the top of the list) Mean Streets.
Boston Phoenix
Peg Aloi
This is a gritty, dreamy Everyman story, sure to resonate with viewers who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.
NY1-TV
Neil Rosen
It's an authentic New York slice of life, and the "coming of age" story has depth. The main character is at a crossroads and you'll be rooting for him all the way.
eye WEEKLY
Jason Anderson
White Irish Drinkers contains a cast of characters who are as loud, brash and pugnacious as that title would suggest. They also represent just about every Irish-American stereotype.
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