Angels' Share

There is love, laughter and whisky galore in Ken Loach's unusually joyful comedy drama about delinquent Scottish youths defying the odds.
-- Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter

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The Angels' Share

Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film festival, legendary director Ken Loach , one of Britain's most distinguished and respected filmmakers, who makes tough, uncompromising films about a beleaguered working class with poetry and humor, and longtime writing partner Paul Laverty (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Bread and Roses and My Name is Joe), present an engagingly off-kilter new film, The Angels' Share. Robbie, a young ne'er do well (Paul Brannigan), a broke new father with a good heart is in serious trouble with the law. When he holds his newborn son for the first time, roguish Robbie is determined that the boy will have a better life, one with more opportunities than he has been offered in this insular, blue collar world. But first Robbie must sort out a variety of pressing problems --his girlfriend's family wants to do him harm and run him out of town being first and foremost among them. He is given a lucky break by a judge who shows mercy, granting him community service instead of jail. Here he meets Rhino, Albert and Mo, former petty criminals also down on their luck.
Not Rated
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Web Site
http://www.ifcfilm…
Runtime
101
Language
English
Director
Ken Loach
Cast
Paul Branniga, Jasmin Riggins, William Ruane, Roger Allam, Siobhan Reilly
FEATURED REVIEW
Leslie Felperin, Variety

An amiable comedy about young Glaswegian roughnecks discovering the world of whisky, “The Angels’ Share” finds helmer Ken Loach and long-term screenwriting partner Paul Laverty in better, breezier form than their rebarbative prior effort, “Route Irish.” Set in Laverty’s native Scotland, the locale ...

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