Reefer and the Model (1988)

Directed by

Joe Comerford

Genre

drama film

Country

Ireland

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A former IRA man runs a ferry boat off the Irish coast. He and his friends take in a pregnant woman escaping her past in England. They get pulled into a post office robbery and are chased by the police.

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What happens

Reefer and the Model is a 1988 Irish film written and directed by Joe Comerford. It concerns Reefer, a former Irish Republican Army man who operates a ferry using an old trawler between the Galway coast and the Aran Islands; his friends Spider and Badger; and the pregnant Teresa ("the Model"), who has abandoned a life of drugs and prostitution in England. The group become involved in the armed robbery of a post office and are pursued by the Gardaí. The film premièred in Galway in August 1988. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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