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Glassland
Toni Collette’s visceral performance as an alcoholic, dependent on her devoted son (Jack Reynor), anchors this powerful Irish drama.
Director: Gerard Barrett
Overview
A young taxi driver (Jack Reynor) resorts to desperate measures to help his alcoholic mother (Toni Collette) and to reconstitute a broken family that harbours dark secrets, in this devastating family drama.
Endowed with an exceptional central performance from Jack Reynor (who’s graduated from What Richard Did to a returning role in the Transformers franchise) and a career-best turn from Toni Collette, Gerard Barrett’s incisive drama was hailed by Sight and Sound magazine as “the real deal, the best Irish film in years”.
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