WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY
However when offered the opportunity of reviewing this "Romantic Comedy", 2 things persuaded me to do it 1: It's my first go. 2 : Roddy Doyle wrote the script and a fine job of it he's done too.
Set in Dublin, Brendan (Peter McDonald,
Nora) is a disenchanted, History teaching, baritone singing, movie buff
with few friends and a loathsome family which are non-too pleased when
he meets Trudy (Flora Montgomery) a beautiful, fast talking blond who
has a secret nightime occupation . "Everybody's a sheep" she
says "just from different flocks"
As can be expected from a movie scripted by Doyle (The Commitments)
the pace is fast, loose and to the point but above all funny.
Especially when Brendan thinks that Trudy's nightlife consists of major
surgical practices !!
Funny, moving and brilliantly acted (watch out for Gabriel Byrne cameo)
this BBC funded picture is good fun and not what you'd expect at all.
break the rules as I see fit.” - Chris High 2003.