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Garage [2007] [DVD]

DVD ~ Pat Shortt
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  • Actors: Pat Shortt, Anne-Marie Duff, Andrew Bennett, George Costigan, Tom Hickey
  • Directors: Leonard Abrahamson
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Soda Pop
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Jun 2008
  • Run Time: 81 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0014T7EQY
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23,772 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Synopsis
The team behind 2004's indie triumph ADAM AND PAUL, bring you GARAGE, a razor sharp tragi-comedy about loneliness and fitting in. Josie (Pat Shortt) has worked as the caretaker of a run-down petrol station in his small Irish town for 20 years. He spends his days in comfortable monotony with a good-natured optimism, which only serves to alienate him from his neighbours who see him as a strange misfit. But Josie takes their mocking in his stride, only occasionally allowing his lonely existence to get him down. Then one summer, his boss hires a teenager, David (Conor Ryan), to help him out at the petrol station. An odd but touching friendship is formed, as the misfit finds someone to talk to at last. Soon Josie is joining David and his friends drinking beer by the railway tracks and enjoying a somewhat delayed adolescence. He even gains the courage to approach Carmel (Anne-Marie Duff) a kindly local shopkeeper, and ask her to dance. However Josie's newly found sense of belonging rests on a knife-edge, and all it takes is one thoughtless moment for his distinctly uneventful life to be turned upside down.

Synopsis
Garage is a landmark in Irish cinema. A beautifully portrayed cinematic drama interspersed with razor sharp shards of black humour, with acutely observed characters that leaves a lasting impression.

The story follows Josie (Pat Shortt) who has spent 20 years as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station in small-town Ireland. Despite loneliness and the fact that his neighbours treat him as a figure of fun, he's always good natured and happy.

Garage is the story of Josie's hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his little niche threatened and his life changed forever.


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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars unfliching , 1 April 2008
By C. Mckenna (Belfast, Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This film is absolutely incredible. It captures the feel of small lives in a small Irish town to perfection. I've never seen a better performance in an Irish film than Pat Shortt's heart-breaking performance here.

My personal test of a good film is how long it stays in the memory. I've been thinking about this film alot since I watched in last weekend. Dont miss it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb film that stays with one for a long time, 7 Jul 2008
Being from Ireland, I had heard alot about this film 4 or 5 months ago when it cleaned up at the IFTA's (Irish Film and Television Awards) so I was looking forward to seeing this and how one of Ireland's top comedians (Pat Shortt who plays Josie) fitted into the big screen in a serious role.

Without giving too much of the plot away, it is set in deep rural Ireland where Josie (a very simple but kind hearted man) works in a quiet filling station and takes pride in his job so much that he bases his whole life around it. Josie - a man who one knows wouldn't hurt a fly - is the subject of much ridicule in the village's pub and he is easily taken advantage of. When a new apprentice starts working with Josie (15yr old David), the two strike up a good friendship ...... mainly due to Josie's below average intelligence and child-like characteristics. But things take an unexpected turn 30 mins from the end as Josie makes a simple but serious mistake that determines the rest of his life.

As I am from rural Ireland, I immediately associated with the small Irish village and all the main characters in the film as I know people in my own life just like them . This film then may seem 'foreign' and highly fictious to people from cities or urban areas in the UK or Ireland but for me it was a film that stayed with me for a long time due to its' heartbreaking ending. Highly recommended.
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5 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing Movie, 7 Aug 2008
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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I watched this movie on the back of the great reviews it received in the UK. Being Irish and having an unhealthy interest in movies i felt the urge to see an Irish movie that is being awarded top reviews. Director Lenny Abrahamson, whose debut film Adam & Paul painted a dull authentic portrait of two Dublin junkies; Adam & Paul was minimalist enough to make Samuel Beckett look indulgent. Garage is even more minimalist. But where there is genius in Beckett, there is no genius here in 'Garage'.

Using lengthy, static takes, natural light and silence, and even more silence, the Director presents us with the dim-wit Josie as a modern-day rainman, Dustin Hoffman with an Irish accent. I will not go into the plot, as i feel i do not want to waste anymore of my time on this poor low-budget movie.

Nothing really happens in this 90 minute snoozefest apart from Josie being bullied by the locals as he has no friends. He also gets to dance with a drunken girl in a pub; he goes drinking with teenagers who mock him, and there is some humour as we snigger at Josie's pathetic attempts at tidying rubbish (collecting a bunch of empty lager cans from a path, for example, only to throw them blithely into the weeds) or his fumbling attempts at getting excited with a blue movie.

Towards the end of the movie things turn deadly seriousy when an innocent misunderstanding sees Josie accused as a potential child abuser after an incident with the blue movie. Such a major tonal shift does not work well as it was all slow burning comedy up until this point. Here, it comes out of nowhere, straining credibility to breaking point and loading the story with more maudlin pathos than it can reasonably be expected to bear.

For the most part, though, Garage is a low-key low-budget affair that contains an excellent performance from Pat Shortt. However this movie was a short movie streched into 90 minutes of boredom. This mawkish and heavy-handed amateur effort was a waste of my time and this garage is not worth pulling into.


Dr Bee Clarke. 2/10

PS. If you are interested in watching a movie about a loner who has a menial job and is mocked by locals watch Station Agent. Unlike Garage it has a story, character development and its good.
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1.0 out of 5 stars garage dvd
I was not happy with the film it was rubbish and I wish I never brought this film very disppointing.
Published 3 months ago

2.0 out of 5 stars Great acting but not a great script
Film evokes place very well and the photography is top class (props to Peter Robertson). The cast all act well, in particular, Pat Shortt (have you done some method acting Mr... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Barry O'Callaghan

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting
Compassionate but bleak depiction of isolation in rural Ireland, centering on the character of Josie, a good-natured but rather simple-minded petrol-station worker. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Fredward Beasley

4.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Performance from Pat Shortt
Although this film won't be to everyone's liking due to its gentle, meandering pace, it is worth watching for Pat Shortt's fantasic performance alone. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Dee McCarthy

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