The Young Offenders
Inspired by the true story of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, the movie follows two teenage boys from Cork as they steal bicycles and ride off on a quest to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7,000,000 euros.
19 April 1975, Dublin, Ireland
January 11, 2017
Writer-director Peter Foott fills the film with slapstick and with plenty of scabrous, witty dialogue.January 11, 2017
As potty as its premise and as endearing as its leads.January 09, 2017
Despite its convenient Hollywood ending, The Young Offenders remains defiantly home-grown, grass roots cinema; and is all the more enjoyable for it.January 13, 2017
An incredibly enjoyable experience that never falters in keeping you invested.January 13, 2017
This exuberantly daft teenage comedy has some similarities to The Inbetweeners but with a kinder, gentler wit.January 13, 2017
The story itself is slight and runs out of steam long before the arrival of a nailgun-wielding drug dealer but the script sparkles and Murphy and Walley are stars in the making as small-time crooks and big-time charmers.January 13, 2017
It's the bromantic banter between the hapless, but touchingly steadfast heroes and the moments of bleakly bruising slapstick that make this impeccably paced saga so genial and enjoyable.January 17, 2017
It's not funny enough to rise above its clumsy story, but it has something rare in movies of its type: a good heart, which it demonstrates in surprisingly sweet scenes between Conor and his mum (Hilary Rose).January 12, 2017
Plays like a gene-splicing experiment involving Bill Forsyth and Ken Loach.January 16, 2017
It's the most perceptive comic portrait of the adolescent male since The Inbetweeners, but with a naturalism that is unexpectedly disarming.January 13, 2017
It's energetic and silly, but also rather sweet, smartly written and directed by Peter Foott and, at times, very funny indeed.January 09, 2017
A lovely lo-fi charmer.