8.5 Hours

What's this? Four people working in a software office. All different with their own lives. All dull but for some reason a film gets made about them? Set in the era of the Celtic Tiger. What's this again? There's some wan looking for an apartment in Dublin 4. Because that's the 'in' place to live. There are not many shops or cafés there but it looks nice in the brochure. They've got Donnybrook fair in Dublin 4. Very posh. The poor girl doesn't earn enough so she blackmails her boss. Her boss is gay you see and fools around with another employee in a car par. But the estate agent pretends there's another bidder. So she has to swallow the honey to spend the money! Why didn't she just do this with her boss? Because he's gay. Are you not following? Then there's Biddy's mam from Glenroe. She's carrying around a foetus! Because this woman is from 'old' Ireland you see and does not approve of abortion. All people from 'old' Ireland are like this of course. The era before the Celtic Tiger. Which is old now. That what this movie does. It hammers the audience with clichés about how the Celtic Tiger generation has lost their way. No they haven't. They're living in ghost estates in Mullingar with 100% mortages now. Ha, ha!