The freshness and utterly natural appeal of leads Michael Legge and Allen Leech is the highlight of this Irish production about the friendship of a gay and straight pair of roommates.
Leech is an openly gay young man with ambitions to be a fashion designer who wants eventually to go to New York to fulfill those dreams. In that field it's either New York or Paris. The housing shortage in Dublin puts these two together and they had a past acquaintanceship from school.
Poor Legge is a shy and socially clumsy kid who has a dull civil service job. Leech takes him in hand and gives him a Queer Eye makeover, but gets a lot more than he could imagine as Legge befriends a pair of drug dealers in the same building and gets Dublin law enforcement looking at him. Both of them get romantic attention from previous unthought of sources as well.
In the end Leech is the one who provides a way out of difficulties for both of them.
In a country with a rigid homophobic and Catholic tradition of which it has come to grips with Cowboys&Angels is a delightful film about the Irish gay scene. The leads give natural and sincere performances and for gay audiences and a few straight people I recommend this film.
Leech is an openly gay young man with ambitions to be a fashion designer who wants eventually to go to New York to fulfill those dreams. In that field it's either New York or Paris. The housing shortage in Dublin puts these two together and they had a past acquaintanceship from school.
Poor Legge is a shy and socially clumsy kid who has a dull civil service job. Leech takes him in hand and gives him a Queer Eye makeover, but gets a lot more than he could imagine as Legge befriends a pair of drug dealers in the same building and gets Dublin law enforcement looking at him. Both of them get romantic attention from previous unthought of sources as well.
In the end Leech is the one who provides a way out of difficulties for both of them.
In a country with a rigid homophobic and Catholic tradition of which it has come to grips with Cowboys&Angels is a delightful film about the Irish gay scene. The leads give natural and sincere performances and for gay audiences and a few straight people I recommend this film.