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

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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