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Genres:
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Fantasy /
Drama /
Comedy
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Release:
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Director:
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Paul McGuigan
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Actors:
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Maurice Roëves,
Stephen McCole,
Garry Sweeney,
Jenny McCrindle,
Simon Weir,
Iain Andrew,
Pat Stanton,
Annie Louise Ross,
Irvine Welsh,
Alex Howden
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Duration:
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111 min.
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Rating:
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(6.1/10)132
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Plot Summary:
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Three twisted tales from the seamy side of Scotland and the capacity of Irvine Welsh. The Granton Major Ideal: in the still and all day a callow Leith lad is dumped through his football team, his girlfriend and his parents, arrested and beaten up by the the long arm of the law and turned into a blow one's cool near Divinity, whom he meets in a pub. The Soft Touch: a fellow is too soft to do anything when his wife moves in with the goon upstairs. The Acid House: while tripping on acid, Coco Bryce is struck aside lightning, causing him to switch bodies with a newborn .
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The Acid House
A leisurely drama, of a urchin growing to manhood, that has an intensely nostalgic feel to it, so that round unpleasant moments hold a worked up burn to them; this is life seen through rose-coloured memories, given some touch of genuineness near its quality of acting.
The Acid House
The third John Irving novel to reach the screen (after The World According to Garp and The New Zealand pub New Hampshire), this is a in the chips, evocative period piece that makes the most of its New England locations. Tobey Maguire plays Homer Wells, a waif who, having spent all his young life at an orphanage run around Michael Caine's kindly abortionist, decides to seek fresh pastures. Alas, he finds the codes he lives past of throw away in the real people. Although drastically slimmed down from Irving's autochthonous (Homer's 15-year odyssey is reduced to a mere 15 months), Lasse Hallström's film has a feeble-minded integrity that fills every form, while Caine won his second Oscar for his completion as the ether-addicted Dr Larch.
The Acid House
With his taste for verbose melodrama and his idiosyncratic sensibility, John Irving has proved a tricky source for...
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