Cowboys & Angels | Frank Kelly, Michael Legge

Cowboys & Angels | Frank Kelly, Michael Legge | unexpected good time

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Cowboys & Angels

	Cowboys & Angels Frank Kelly, Michael Legge TLA Releasing, 2005 average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An award-winning, exhilaratingly funny coming-of-age film, Cowboys & Angels tells the witty story about two Irish lads-one straight and one gay-from their youthful career ambitions to romance to entanglements with the law. Shane (Michael Legge, Angela's Ashes) is a shy civil servant striking out on his own. Vincent (Allen Leech) is a gay fashion design student looking for a roommate. When they cross paths, a friendship begins with Vincent helping pull Shane from his shell and sending him on the road to fabulousness. However, Shane becomes involved in drug running and falls for Vincent's best friend Gemma (the luminous Amy Shields).

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Amazing!

I loved Cowboys and Angels.
It is an amazing movie.
Twists in the right places.
Great ups and downs of a friendship.
Just an all around great movie.

unexpected good time

This was such a good movie the characters are interesting and charming. It does a good job showing what its like being on your own for the first time and in the city; and the unlikely trouble and friends you can find along the way, and when your really lucky you might find yourself as well. Don't miss this movie! It is well worth the price and share it with someone special friend lover or family they will thak you for it

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Refreshing

How come all the good gay-themed films are from europe? This is a refreshing story of a gay student and a young straight man; the gay man takes the straight 'lost and lonely' young man under his wings, as does a drug dealer. The plot is well tied together is at some points a little thin. The acting is good, especially the young straight man. His story is what drives the movie and the dialouge is well placed.

There Once Was a Young Man From Limerick

"Cowboys and Angels," released in 2005, is a mild, pleasant little comedy-drama, a semi-autobiographical Irish coming of age tale if ever there was one, set, unusually enough, in Limerick,-- yes, that Limerick-- a place we've seldom seen onscreen (save for the film of Frank Mc Court's "Angela's Ashes--" that sure didn't make it look like a pleasant place to be.) But the city looks much more presentable in "Cowboys and Angels." The film stars Michael Legge, who played the teenaged Frank Mc Court in "Angela's Ashes," and may possibly, therefore, be Limerick's leading young actor, as Shane Butler, geeky suburban kid, dressed by Mom, come to town to work in a dull civil service job.

Interestingly enough, the film's written and directed by David Gleeson, who once worked in the exact same Department of Agriculture office, with some of the exact same people, as does his protaganist. At any rate, here we have young Shane fresh in the city, looking for affordable lodgings. He decides to room with Vincent Cusack (Allen Leech), a guy he knew in school, now attending the local art college, and a way out there gay wannabe fashion designer. Thence hangs the tale. Amy Shiels plays Gemma, Vincent's hot, close friend: Shane yearns in her direction, but he's too geeky to consider until taken in hand by Vincent. Frank Kelly turns in a touching performance as Jerry, an older worker in Shane's office, who doesn't realize until too late that it wasn't the best way to spend his time. There are some regrettable interludes where Shane gets into drug smuggling: but how else is he to pay, someone must have thought, for his new wardrobe, and his new directions in life?

As often happens in works about gays and straights, much more attention is paid to the love life problems of the straights, rather than the gays, but Vincent is respectfully treated. The film, by and large, covers familiar territory, but it did win five awards, and it's set in a part of the world we don't often see.

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Cowboys and Angels

I watched this movie last night. Why it has been labled a "gay" movie is beyond my grasp. It is simply a story of growing up: learning to make your own decisions, to make your own way, and to understand that happiness usually is standing right in front of us.

The movie's two central characters are Shane and Allen. I don't agree at all that the gay character (Allen) caused the huge change in Shane. Shane CHANGED HIMSELF. Like most of us going through life's journey, you have to experience--and hopefully LEARN from that experience--as you continue to grow. Are you going to make some mistakes? Sure you are; you're human. This particular movie dealt more with the intricate bonding of two people: one just happened to be gay. So, if you're gay and you think you'll get some T&A between the two lead characters, forget it. That is NOT what this movie is about.

Directed by David Gleeson, this movie's running time is 89 minutes and the version I watched was not rated. There are a few "off color" words, some adult situations, and that's about it. Nothing to offend. I highly recommend this one.

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