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Dir: Philip John (15, 93 mins)
Two teenage step-brothers played by Welsh actor Jack Parry-Jones and the Scottish Christy O’Donnell travel from Shetland to Glasgow and both fall for an Irish singer, Tara Lee, along the way making a Celtic ménage-a-trois. An episodic coming of age road movie with three talented leads, Welsh director Philip John’s cinematic debut is blessed with a wisecracking script, providing plenty of sparks for its central trio as they blunder from awkward weddings to slapstick ear piercings and romantic mishaps. Ostensibly the step brothers are searching for an estranged mother and a student girlfriend, but their picaresque journey offers plenty more in the way of distractions, and will inevitably lead to them reconnecting with each other. A sexy shaggy dog tale told with charm and wit and some solid supporting performances from Tanya Franks, Shauna McDonald, Claire Cage and a cameo-ing Denis Lawson.
Opens Sept 1