JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
CLOSING GALA<br />
SUNDAY 23RD FEBRUARY<br />
‘takes a refreshingly different look at this pre-marital rite of passage’<br />
Screen International<br />
THE STAG<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Savoy 1 / 7.30pm / 94 minutes<br />
Director: John Butler 2013 Ireland<br />
Writers: John Butler, Peter McDonald<br />
Cast: Hugh O’Conor, Andrew Scott, Brian Gleeson, Peter<br />
McDonald, Amy Huberman, Andrew Bennett, Michael Legge<br />
With special guests John Butler, Andrew Scott, Hugh<br />
O’Conor, Peter McDonald, Brian Gleeson, Michael Legge,<br />
Andrew Bennett, Amy Huberman, Rebecca O’Flanagan and<br />
Rob Walpole<br />
Not your average groom, Fionán (Hugh O’Conor)<br />
has little interest in a bachelor party: he would much<br />
rather stay at home and make seating plans with<br />
his fiancée Ruth (Amy Huberman), but when his<br />
micromanagement of the wedding begins to get out<br />
of hand, Ruth decides that he needs a nudge in the<br />
right direction.<br />
Enlisting the help of best man Davin, a stag weekend<br />
is planned: nothing crazy, just five friends on a<br />
simple camping trip in the Irish countryside. That is,<br />
until Ruth insists that her brother (nicknamed ‘The<br />
Machine’) is invited along too. While Davin tries his<br />
utmost to dissuade the notorious sibling, there’s<br />
simply no way The Machine is going to miss out on a<br />
stag party and, what’s more, he’s determined to make<br />
this a trip to remember!<br />
Unlike some recent American films loosely based<br />
on the same premise, John Butler’s hilarious debut<br />
feature draws from a deeper well, sprinkling moments<br />
of glorious slapstick over a well-constructed<br />
foundation of real-life drama. The characters here all<br />
have hidden depths and this is as much a voyage<br />
of self discovery as a madcap comedy caper. The<br />
Stag boasts splendid performances all round from an<br />
ensemble cast of home-grown talent and, while The<br />
Machine (played by Moone Boy’s Peter McDonald)<br />
provides most of the intense belly laughs, Andrew<br />
Scott’s performance as Davin yields some of the film’s<br />
more tender and emotional moments.<br />
David Desmond<br />
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