The Tiger's Tail (2006)After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself. Director:John BoormanWriter:John Boorman |
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The Tiger's Tail (2006)After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself. Director:John BoormanWriter:John Boorman |
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| Brendan Gleeson | ... |
Liam O'Leary /
The Double
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| Kim Cattrall | ... |
Jane O'Leary
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| Ciarán Hinds | ... |
Father Andy
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| Sinéad Cusack | ... |
Oona O'Leary
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| Sean McGinley | ... |
Declan Murray
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| Cathy Belton | ... |
Sally
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| Brian Gleeson | ... |
Connor O'Leary
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| Angeline Ball | ... |
Ursula
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Ruth McCabe | ... |
Large Woman
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| Stanley Townsend | ... |
Jim Brady - The Banker
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Moira Deady | ... |
Maeve - Liam's Mother
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| Michael McElhatton | ... |
Dr. Alex Loden
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| Michael Ford-FitzGerald | ... |
Male Nurse
(as Michael FitzGerald)
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Denis Conway | ... |
Bertie Brennan
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| Charlene McKenna | ... |
Samantha
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After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Hmm.
Sadly, "The Tiger's Tail" is rubbish, and a major disappointment, because John Boorman is a great director who has made some great films. You know what I'm talking about. "Point Blank", "Deliverance", "Excalibur", "The General", "The Tailor Of Panama", "Beyond Rangoon", "The Emerald Forest". You can look up the others for yourselves.
Brenda Gleeson plays Liam O'Leary, a Dublin property developer, who's life gets changed completely when he finds himself being stalked by a doppelganger.
I have no idea what happened here, but "The Tiger's Tail" is a complete misfire and a total waste of an interesting actor in Brendan Gleeson. It fails completely as a drama and/or a black comedy, chiefly because it is not dramatic enough and it is not funny enough. I can suspend belief as well as the next man, but I didn't believe a word of "The Tiger's Tail".
And the cardinal sin? "The Tiger's Tail" is boring, boring, boring, dull, dull, dull. Maybe I'm missing the subtext somewhere. I'm not too clever.
Such a shame. Onto the next one, Mister Boorman.