2016 · comedy
The Young Offenders
Directed by Peter Foott1h 24m2016
Two teenage boys from inner-city Cork steal bicycles and ride off on a 160km quest to find an unrecovered bale of cocaine worth 7,000,000 euros.
Our read: The Young Offenders (2016) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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