Disco Pigs Details

With director Kirsten Sheridan being the daughter of My Left Foot director Jim Sheridan, you would expect some pedigree from this twisted rite-of-passage tale, but the result is an overwrought drama that doesn't quite come up with the goods. Inseparable since birth, next-door neighbours and wilful outsiders Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy have grown up together as though they were twins — even having their own special language. But when they are prised apart on their 17th birthday, all hell breaks loose. Unfortunately, that is the moment Sheridan's already precarious feature debut collapses into a mêlée of sickening violence that lacks both the power and the poignancy of Neil Jordan's similarly themed The Butcher Boy. Both the principals are fine, with Murphy in particular suggesting the raw pain of teenage trauma via his baby-talk babble. But Enda Walsh's adaptation of her own play is too verbose and that only exposes Sheridan's inability to find the romanticism in the piece.

Born only moments apart, next door neighbours Pig (Murphy) and Runt (Cassidy) have been inseparable ever since, their... read more on Time Out