Saltwater
comedy-drama (opened out from his play This Lime Tree Bower) set at the Irish seaside. McDonald feels stuck serving in his widower dad’s chippy, and frustrated by the old man being in iniquitous hock to a loan shark (Gleeson). While he ponders direct action, his older brother’s romantic life proceeds shambolically apace, and just because he’s a philosophy tutor doesn’t mean he knows how to set things in order. Judged in the harshest light, the ..