Conor Mullen Movies
Deliverance and Tailor of Panama director John Boorman returns to the director's chair for this tale of a hawkish businessman who slowly finds his life being taken over by the twin brother he never knew he had. Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) is a no-nonsense real-estate developer who isn't above greasing the politician's wheels a bit to get the permits he needs. His 20-year marriage to Jane (Kim Cattrall) has been stale for over a decade, and his adolescent son, Connor (Brian Gleeson), has most recently taken to communism as a means of showcasing his rebellious streak. Though Liam still dotes on his aging mother (Moira Deady), it's plain to see that his sister, Oona (Sinéad Cusack), is the favored child in the family. One day, stuck in traffic on the way home from work and frustrated at his inability to obtain planning permission for a multi-million pound stadium, Liam is shocked to see his spitting image approach his car and begin cleaning the windshield while begging for change. Now, after discovering that he was not only adopted but has an identical twin as well, Liam finds his life rapidly being taken over by a cunning doppelganger who has had enough of life on the streets, and has finally found a means of turning his luck around by simply stepping into the shoes of his more successful counterpart. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, (more)
When the scientists of Chemacran create a remarkable new drug and begin to anticipate a takeover by a large U.S. pharmaceutical company, ethics are tested as potential for profit soars. Thankfully journalists Terry Corcoran (Finbar Lynch) and Maureen Bloand (Orla Brady) are more than willing to blow the lid off the story as big-business suits and powerful politicians make a desperate bid to cover up a series of deaths that have been attributed to the revolutionary drug. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Finbar Lynch, Orla Brady, (more)
A spurned groom and a fired waitress set out on a road trip while bonding over their mutual dissatisfaction with life in director Karl Golden's bittersweet romantic comedy. David (Jonathan Byrne) is a Dublin office drone whose blushing bride-to-be just got cold feet. Claire (Alex Reid) is a pot-smoking waitress whose married boyfriend just cancelled plans for her birthday celebration. After Claire if fired for pouring hot coffee in a customer's lap, David offers her to pay her for a ride to the lavish Donegal cottage that was intended to be an extravagant wedding present. As the unlikely pair winds their way up the scenic seaside love nest, they gradually open up to one another while realizing that sometimes it's impossible to tell what strange twists fate will deliver in life. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jonathan Byrne, Alex Reid, (more)
- 2002
Based on the best-selling novel by Irish comedian Spike Milligan, Puckoon is a political satire about a town cut in half by the partitioning of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in 1924. The action takes place in a town known as Puckoon where an ordinary fellow named Dan Madigan wakes up one day to find barbed-wire fences running right through his neighbors' houses. All at once, Madigan's friends begin altering their personalities to suit the side of the fence they've found themselves on. So it's up to Madigan, the last sane man in town, to restore order. Originally written in 1963, Puckoon is considered the forerunner of anti-humor comedy which became the staple of shows like Monty Python and Saturday Night Live. ~ Connor McMadden, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Hughes, Elliott Gould, (more)
- 2002
Silent Grace, the debut feature from director Maeve Murphy, is based on actual events. In the early 1980s, a new inmate (Cathleen Bradley) is thrown into prison with a group of female IRA insurgents led by Orla Brady). Although the newcomer has been put there to destabalize the group, they convert her and begin the "dirty" protests, which involves the inmates refusing to clean themselves. Silent Grace was screened at the Hamptons Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Orla Brady, Cathleen Bradley, (more)
- 2002
The third feature-length installment of the British detective series Helen West, A Clear Conscience was based on a novel by Frances Fyfield. On the verge of burnout, overworked Crown Prosecutor Helen West (Amanda Burton) finds solace and comfort in renovating her cozy but rather run-down garden apartment. But despite her efforts to escape the pressures of her job, Helen is inexorably drawn into a murder case involving her housekeeper Cath Boyce (Lynda Steadman). The ensuing intrigue -- which involves domestic abuse, a horrible secret, and a second murder -- not only wears Helen's nerves to a frazzle, but also seriously jeopardizes her romance with the detective on the case, Chief Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey (Connor Mullen). Originally telecast in England over the ITV network Helen West: A Clear Conscience made its American debut over the A&E cable service on December 7, 2002. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Amanda Burton, Conor Mullen, (more)
