A thin plot doesn’t dampen the sunny energy of this low-budget comedy, starring writer-director Dave Minogue’s real nephew
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Surprisingly few films feature uncle-nephew bonding that isn’t straight-up creepy, but this
Irish comedy is all about a depressed single man named Al (Trevor O’Connell) looking after his sister’s smart but cheeky pre-adolescent kid Karl (Ryan Minogue-Lee) for a week. It was apparently partly inspired by the relationship between writer-director Dave Minogue, making his feature debut here, and his pint-sized star, who is his own nephew in real life. Perhaps that real-life inspiration accounts for the authentic feel in the connection between the two leads, relatives who at first barely know each other but who grow close during a road trip around the Republic.