Redemption of a Rogue

[Plays May 13-23 as part of the MSPIFF40 Film Festival; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org/festivals/mspiff for full schedule.] Philip Doherty's exceedingly bizarre, somber, quirky, bleak, award-winning, satirical, 93-minute black comedy dotted with dark humor in which a suicidal Irishman (Aaron Monaghan) returns to his hometown after a 7-year absence to make amends with the townsfolk, to seek forgiveness from his paralyzed girlfriend (Liz Fitzgibbon), and to visit his estranged, dying father (Hugh B. O'Brien), and when his bedridden father suddenly up and dies, his will states that if he and his brother (Kieran Roche) want to inherit the meager estate, he cannot be buried on a rainy day, which oddly triggers a nonstop downpour and a relationship with a unpopular singer (Aisling O'Mara).
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