Run-of-the-mill coming-of-age tale, very professionally handled by director Peter Yates, and invested with above-average scenic values by virtue of its rural Irish locale. That, and the pursed, pouchy visage of Albert Finney, in the role of a small-town constable with a big dream: "One good murder, that's all I ask, and me the only one able to solve it." The Irish brogue, however, seems to broaden Finney's acting, and the local color in general is a little garish. More than a little, in fact, in the dance-hall brawl, the clandestine cockfight, the old-fashioned tarring-and-feathering. With Matt Keeslar, Anthony Brophy, Victoria Smurfit. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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