Swansong

Or the Occi Byrne story. This is another coming of age bullying drama that belongs back in the '90s with Sweety Barrett and Frankie Starlight. Extremely watchable but for all the wrong reasons. The bullying isn't as bad as made out and the family secret is easy to figure out. There's also a strange setting that looks like the '60s or could it be the '80s? The major problem is that almost every scene is taken from another Irish movie: the fishing trawler, the harsh Christian brother, the priest having sex with Occi's mother, the mental hospital, the outsider in a sh*t small town, emigration, the rude worker in the dole office, and the grim setting.