Irishigulous

The Brothers McMullen

(1995)

This is another of those I-seem-to-recall-liking-this-when-I-saw-it-and-it's-really-cheap purchases from a few years ago, when I was young and impetuous. OK, less old and impetuous.

But while I certainly didn't need to own it, it holds up pretty well. The acting is almost uniformly amateurish (one exception: Jennifer Jostyn as the auto-mechanic soulmate of brother Patrick), and there's nothing groundbreaking about the writing, but the story of warped Catholic guilt resonates.