Everlasting Piece

Pros: Political Comedy that is an Irish Delight
Cons: I wish life were this funny full time

I usually do not like Irish based film. I do not have any prejudice against the Emerald Isle it is just that the accent is so strong in some of the flicks that I tend to miss half the dialogue. I hate thinking I missed half of the plot because of some...

Pros: Quirky, unique, clever, well written little comedy with fine performances.
Cons: The film's pace meanders and for some it'll be too Irish.

It's a very difficult task these days for a small quirky little film to get made and distributed. Even more so if the film is set in Ireland, and has no big stars.

An Everlasting Piece is the kind of film that should have benefited a great...

Pros: Writer/Star Barry McEvoy, Bryan F. O'Byrne, Anna Friel. A sure comedy from Director Barry Levinson.
Cons: Various segments of the audience may find objectionable factors in the story.

Director Barry Levinson, strongly identified with Baltimore, travels to Ireland to find compassionate humor in AN EVERLASTING PIECE. It is a small comedy with tragic undertones. Depending on the venue in which the film is shown, the work may enrage or...

Pros: An eminently overlooked UK charmer from Barry Levinson; poignant, witty, and downright hilarious.
Cons: For some, the thick Irish dialect.

Bollocks to the masses. To ‘ell with the lot of ‘em, I’m bloody sick of the grandiloquent claptrap that afflicts our film houses today. Joe Suburbanite (i.e. Me) gets treated to the same rot week after week; stuff so bad that Hollywood is lucky not to be...

Pros: funny in a fresh way, interesting, great acting
Cons: might be too arcane for some

Poor Barry Levinson. We saw it last year with "Liberty Heights", and I fear the same thing will happen with "An Everlasting Piece": no one will go see it. But if that happens, it’d be a shame, because "Piece" is a...

Pros: A likable and energetic cast; a nice balance between the comic and the dramatic.
Cons: Too many gags fall flat.

If for nothing else, young actor Barry McEvoy certainly earns points for finding a new and unusual way of addressing the oft-explored issue of the Northern Ireland Catholic/Protestant conflict in his script for An Everlasting Piece. Fortunately,...

Pros: good story, director Levinson
Cons: flat gags

Well, this is another good Irish comedy film set in Belfast during the mid 1980's. Two barbers, a Protestant(Brian F. O'Byrne), and a Catholic(Barry McEvoy) team up to corner the toupee market in Northern Ireland. This film is gritty, bittersweet, and...