The Tiger's Tail (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.1/10   

Director:

John Boorman

Guionista:

John Boorman (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 junio 2007 (UK)

Género:

Comedia | Crimen | Drama | Misterio | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

When your past is a lie... and your future is not your own

Plot:

After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself. |

Plot Keywords:

Animal In Title | Dublin Ireland | Mental Hospital | Capitalism | Brother Brother Relationship

Premios:

2 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Good entertainment

Reparto

Brendan Gleeson	...	Liam O'Leary
Kim Cattrall	...	Jane O'Leary
Ciarán Hinds	...	Father Andy
Sinéad Cusack	...	Oona O'Leary
Sean McGinley	...	Declan Murray
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Angeline Ball	...	Ursula
Cathy Belton	...	Sally
Denis Conway	...	Bertie Brennan
Moira Deady	...	Maeve - Liam's Mother
Ned Dennehy	...	Felim
Michael FitzGerald	...	Male nurse
Briain Gleeson	...	Connor O'Leary
David Herlihy	...	Paul
John Kavanagh	...	Harry
Mark Lambert	...	District Judge
Ruth Lawlor	...	Larry's Secretary
Nigel Linden	...	Samantha's Boyfriend
Eanna MacLiam	...	The Beggar
Sean Markey	...	Drinker
Aonghus Og McAnally	...	Garda #2 (as Aonghus Óg McAnally)
Ruth McCabe	...	Large Woman
Michael McElhatton	...	Dr. Alex Loden
Charlene McKenna	...	Samantha
Geoff Minogue	...	Ambulance Driver
Conor Mullen	...	MC
Martin Murphy	...	Garda #1
Regan O'Brien	...	Nurse
Philip O'Sullivan	...	Assistant Governor
Derry Power	...	Eddie
Stanley Townsend	...	Jim Brady - The Banker
Paolo Tullio	...	Patrick Le Say
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor	...	Larry Cooney (as Tom Vaughan Lawlor)
Mary Woods	...	Prostitute

MPAA:

Rated R for a scene of sexuality, and brief drug content.

Duración:

107 min

País:

Ireland

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Ireland:15A | UK:18 | Australia:MA | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Dublin Docks, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Compañía:

Fern Gully Tales

Trivialidades:

"The Tiger's Tail" refers to the "Celtic Tiger" economic boom that Ireland experienced from 1995 to 2008 (Ireland was said to officially be in recession as of June 24th 2008).

Errores:

Continuidad: In the scene where Liam pulls up at Oona's house, his car is a 03 Golf with wheel trims. When they are taking Conor to the hospital a side shot of the car is shown which clearly shows the car with alloy wheels. The number plate on the car 03-D-55897 is the same in both shots.

Citas:

Liam O'Leary: You fired a shotgun at me, that wasn't very brotherly was it?

Good entertainment

I recently saw this at the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival for it's North American premiere. Director/writer John Boorman has had a very sporadic directorial career making only 15 feature length films between 1965 and 2006 including this, his latest offering. Boorman has rarely enjoyed the success that struck early in his career with such films as Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific and his biggest to date Deliverance. This time around Boorman has delivered a black comedy set in Ireland where Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleesan) plays a wealthy real estate developer who's new found wealth has come through hard work and determination but is also costing him a loveless marriage to his wife Jane (Kim Catrell), an indifferent rebellious son Connor (real-life son Brian Gleeson), and he is overextended with his bank and battling with a rival developer and flirting with a nervous breakdown. Liam begins to think he is going mad when he starts seeing his double. Gleeson is very good in the double role of Liam and his double. Catrall drifts in and out of an Irish accent but it's not that pronounced of an accent to begin with to be bothersome to the viewer or detracting from the story. Brian Gleeson turns in a fine first screen debut. This is not a great film and not without it's flaws but it's got some great peripheral support players in the cast and good story with some witty moments. I liked it. It's got kind of a 1940's Hollywood B movie quality to it although set in modern times. I would give it a 7.5 out of 10 and it's worth a look.