The Disappearance of Finbar (1996)

Finbar and Danny are close childhood friends who live in a depressing neighbourhood in an Irish town. Finbar gets the chance to play soccer in an international soccer team abroad but can't ... See full summary »

Director:

Sue Clayton

Writers:

Dermot Bolger, Sue Clayton,

Stars:

Luke Griffin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Lawlor

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Luke Griffin	...	Danny Quinn
Jonathan Rhys Meyers	...	Finbar Flynn
Sean Lawlor	...	Michael Flynn
Chris Meehan	...	Roscommon Cowboy
Toner Quinn	...	Roscommon Cowboy
Phil Calley	...	Roscommon Cowboy
Fran McPhail	...	Roscommon Cowbow
Pete Cummins	...	Roscommon Cowboy
Pat Henry	...	Roscommon Cowboy
Gerard Cullen	...	Roscommon Cowboy
Jake Williams	...	Young Finbar
Robert Hickey	...	Young Danny
Eleanor Methven	...	Pat Flynn
Marie Mullen	...	Ellen Quinn
Don Foley	...	Grandpa Quinn

Storyline

Finbar and Danny are close childhood friends who live in a depressing neighbourhood in an Irish town. Finbar gets the chance to play soccer in an international soccer team abroad but can't use it and comes back. He went as a hero and came back as loser. Even the relation to Danny gets worse. In an act of desperation he jumps from a bridge and just disappears. After years of missing Finbar, he calls Danny from Sweden and Danny follows this call disappearing from this neighbourhood, too. In an odyssey, Danny travels from Stockholm to the far north of Sweden, to Lappland, looking for Finbar. Up there, he does not only meet Finbar but also very nice people and the lovely Abbi. But the friendship to Finbar has changed and their lives evantually separate.

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Plot Keywords:

sweden | friendship | runaway | dublin ireland | missing person | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

Ireland Sweden UK

Language:

English Finnish Mandarin Swedish

Release Date:

17 March 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Auf der Suche nach Finbar

Filming Locations:

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company Credits

Production Co:

Victoria Film, Channel 4 Television Corporation, First City Features Ltd.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Finbar Flynn: Bet you wish you were here don't ya, Danny?

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Soundtracks

"Tangokavaljeren"
Music by Jules Sylvain
Performed by Pedro's Heavy Gentlemen

User Reviews

Another badly made British film, not set in Britain.

The film begins off in North Dublin and the badness of the movie begins to set in when the script tries to portray what young people are like in this part of Dublin. Not very close at all.

Then Finbar, the accent seems to be muddled. Changing from Dublin accent to the actors actual Cork accent to the made up film Irish accent. The script is bad and so are the directions with a story line so unrealistic and boreing about a boy who disapears from his home and ends up in Sweden where his friend goes to find him. His friend, Danny travels around Sweden in search and as the script is not worth listening to , the movie turns into a travel guide or geographic film shows the scenery of Sweden.

Only 2 good things appear in the film. The girls of Sweden which have to be extremly beautiful and the aerial photogrpahy showing the beauty of Sweden towards the end.

A British made film not set in Britain. The idea of Ireland and Sweden in the same film feels like a James Bond movie especially when Danny is going in search of Finbarr and with all the snow in the movie I was expecting one of them to jump off a cliff with ski's and shoot some people. Unfortunately that didnt happen but I got close when I saw the snow-mobiles.

Not a tremendous film but not extremely bad either. Worth a watch and as I truely have to say. A lot better than Star Wars as it hints a touch of film art in it.