Two Irish teens, a Platonic boy and girl, while away their summer holiday concocting fictions around the denizens of their seaside village (a foursome of nuns: "Their skin had a clear pellucid texture that could only have come from a lifetime's confinement"). A promising start, soon narrowed down by the arrival of a voluptuous blonde (Beverly D'Angelo) whom we know to be the boy's presumed-dead mother. This takes us in no very interesting direction in no very great hurry. The briny atmosphere is well caught; and a Dublin stage production of Destry Rides Again is splendidly tacky. Circus and amusement park are more ho-hum; a few bad dreams are bad indeed; and the final surrealistic cocktail is spit-outably sweetish. With Niall Byrne and Lorraine Pilkington; written and directed by Neil Jordan. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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