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Intermission - Cillian Murphy, Kelly MacDonald, Colin Farrell, John Crowley

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Life is what happens in between.

Intermission 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, pre-teen 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.

Persons of interest

Colin Farrell .... Lehiff
Shirley Henderson .... Sally
Barbara Bergin .... Karen
Tom Farrelly .... George
Rory Keenan .... Anthony
Laurence Kinlan .... Dealer
Kelly MacDonald .... Deirdre
Michael McElhatton .... Sam
Colm Meaney .... Detective Jerry Lynch
Cillian Murphy .... John
Deirdre O'Kane .... Noeleen
Tomas O'Suilleabhain .... Ben
Owen Roe .... Mr Henderson
Ger Ryan .... Maura
David Wilmot .... Oscar
Mark O'Rowe .... Screenwriter
John Crowley .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

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Awards and film festivals:

IFTA Awards 2003: Won: Best Film Director (John Crowley), Best Irish Film, Best Script (Mark O'Rowe), Best Supporting Actor in Film/TV (David Wilmot); Nominated: Best New Talent (David Wilmot), Best Supporting Actor in Film/TV (Colin Farrell), Best Supporting Actress in Film/TV (Deirdre O'Kane), Best Supporting Actress in Film/TV (Ger Ryan)