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BLACK IRISH
USA, 2006, 92 MIN
DIRECTED BY BRAD GANN
Southeast Premiere

Cole McKay (Michael Angarano), a 16-year-old Irish Catholic living in South Boston, is a good boy who loves his family, baseball, and pets. Once an aspirant for the priesthood, Cole struggles to come of age--facing new obligations and ideas--in the midst of a chaotic and financially challenged family and the upheaval that accompanies his own puberty. Can he survive? Can his family? The McKay's are a troubled lot: Cole's teenage siblings--surly and misguided Terry (Tom Guiry) and unwed and pregnant Kathleen (Emily VanCamp)--are foils for his growth, while his parents--alcoholic Desmond and austere Margaret--complete the family, ultimately revealing how the term "Black Irish" in this film may refer to the more pejorative hard-drinking, brawling Irish than to Spanish Moor ancestral descent. With an impressive ensemble cast, including Brendan Gleeson, Melissa Leo, and Michael Rispoli, this finely shot coming-of-age story is fraught with all the tension and conflict and hope of real life familial relationships.