Country: USA
Year: 2010
Duration: 109'
white irish drinkers Brooklyn, fall 1975. Brian Leary is eighteen years old and spends his time committing petty crimes with his older brother, Danny. But Brian’s true vocation isn’t misdemeanors, it’s painting and he indulges his passion secretly in his parents’ basement, where he isolates himself to hide from his father’s alcoholic violence and his mother’s depression. When the news gets out that the Rolling Stones are going to play in the club where Brian works, the whole neighborhood is excited and the young man thinks that he has finally found a way to leave the area for good. “I have always been fascinated with the themes of family, of neighborhood, and of the tortured search for, and withholding of, love. In creating the Leary family, I saw in their private world a microcosm of that place and time: the power of drink, the unnamed yearning for something that seems out of reach, and the grasping of the familiar over the reach for change, and the swaggering fear of the unknown world outside the neighborhood.”
Biography
film director
John Gray
John Gray (New York, NY, USA) was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked in TV as a writer, director and producer. He is the creator and executive producer of the TV series Ghost Whisperer and has directed fourteen episodes of the series. He has also written and directed numerous films and series for TV, including An American Story (1992), The Hunley (1999), The Seventh Stream (2001), Helter Skelter (2004). White Irish Drinkers is his third feature film for cinema, after Born to Be Wild (1995) and The Glimmer Man (1996).
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
An American Story (Dopo la gloria - Una storia americana, tv, 1992), Born to Be Wild (1995), The Glimmer Man (Delitti inquietanti, 1996), The Day Lincoln Was Shot (tv, 1998), The Hunley (tv, 1999), Brian’s Song - L’ultima corsa (2001), White Irish Drinkers (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura /director, screenplay
John Gray
fotografia/cinematography
Seamus Tierney
montaggio/film editing
Neil Mandelberg
scenografia/production design
Tommaso Ortino
costumi/costume design
Nicole Capasso
musica/music
Mark Snow
suono/sound
Tammy Douglas
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Nick Thurston (Brian Leary), Geoff Wigdor (Danny), Karen Allen (Margaret), Stephen Lang (Patrick), Peter Riegert (Whitey), Leslie Murphy (Shauna), Zachary Booth (Todd), Robbie Collier Sublett (Ray), Michael Drayer (Dennis), Henry Zebrowski (Jerry)
produttori/producers
John Gray, Melissa Jo Peltier, Paul Bernard, James Scura
produzione/production
Ovington Avenue Productions
vendita all’estero/world sales
John Gray
