Rea plays a street trader who works for Harris who marries a younger woman who runs off with Townsend and a lots of money. Set among the traveller community this is a terrible picture. Rea gets caught up in the mayhem of fights, violence, brawls, animal cruelty, nasty characters, cheats, and people told to leave the area. The dialogue gets drowned by too much music and the direction is awful. Lots of wide shots with the actors standing in the middle of the frame talking. The direction doesn't get involved with the story and leaves the audience observing and getting confused. The script is by famous playwright Roche (who makes a cameo appearance). Really bland stuff. One of dozens of 'lost' Film Board features from the 1990s. This is the kind of crap the IFB threw money at back then. No wonder Lenny Abrahamson waited so long to make a feature film!
Title: Trojan Eddie
Genre: Family feud
New/old: Old
Cinema/DVD: DVD
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