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Drinking Crude (1997)

Drinking Crude poster
Directed by
Owen McPolin
Genre
drama film
Country
Ireland
Runtime
1h 24m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man leaves rural Ireland for London hoping to make his fortune. He is offered a job by a Scottish acquaintance but it requires him to return to Ireland, where the work turns out to be cleaning giant oil tanks.

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What happens

Drinking Crude è un film del 1997, diretto da Owen McPolin. Paul Kelliher decide di lasciare l'Irlanda rurale con il sogno di trovare fortuna a Londra. Qui lo scozzese Al Russell offre a Paul un lavoro come operaio, che impone però il ritorno in Irlanda. Tornato a casa Paul scopre che il lavoro consiste nel pulire giganti serbatoi di petrolio, e prende in considerazione l'idea di iscriversi al college come alternativa alla vita da operaio. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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