Belfast is the setting for a melodramatic thriller that fails to excite
Rupert Grint and Kimberley Fox in Cherrybomb.
  1. Cherrybomb
  2. Production year: 2009
  3. Country: UK
  4. Cert (UK): 15
  5. Runtime: 86 mins
  6. Directors: Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros D'Sa, Lisa Barros D'Sa
  7. Cast: James Nesbitt, Kimberley Nixon, Robert Sheehan, Rupert Grint
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Rupert Grint takes a vacation from Hogwarts to play a teenager getting into deep trouble in Belfast the summer he takes his GCSEs (or is it his A-Levels?). A close friend involved in the drug business, a near-sociopathic girl back home from London, a boring family and binge-drinking company are the problems. The characters are thin and unsympathetic, the violent, melodramatic conclusion is signalled at the beginning, but not well ascended to. The complex mood of present-day Ulster is assumed but neither established nor explored.

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