Reefer and the Model

Movie

Drama

Adventure

Crime

Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. They head to the trawler where he lives with friends Spider and Badger, that operates between Galway and the Aran Islands. The makeshift family are forced to turn to crime to make a living.

Date: 08/05/1988

Rating: 5.2

Cast: Ian McElhinney, Carol Moore, Sean Lawlor, Ray McBride, Eve Watkinson, Birdy Sweeney, Fionn Comerford, John Lillis, Henry Comerford, Paraic Breathnach, Maire Chinsealach, Dave Duffy, Rosina Brown, Little John Nee, Seán Ó Coisdealbha, Noel Spain, Peter Fitzgerald, Dick Donaghue, Máire Ní Mháille, Michael Rowland, Patrick Blackaby, Uinseann Mac Thomáis, Deirdre Lawless, Gary McMahon

Ian McElhinney