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   • 84% 84% Rotten Tomatoes

   Critics consensus Glassland's grim setting is leavened by writer-director Gerard Barrett's compassionate treatment of his characters -- and bolstered by a strong cast led by Toni Collette and Jack Reynor. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

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   A poor Dublin taxi driver (Jack Reynor) is forced to take a shady side job to pay for his alcoholic mother's (Toni Collette) costly rehab at a private clinic.

   • 84% (51)
   • Actors: Jack Reynor

   • Director: Gerard Barrett
   • Produce Company: Element Pictures

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   Is Glassland a good movie?

   • As a slow-burning, micro-budgeted Irish indie steeped in grim realities and propulsive emotions, Glassland is a vehicle that allows Reynor to truly shine. "Glassland" boasts a strong lead cast who help lift the film greatly and to soaring heights in its emotional richness. If not for this, it may have drowned in its dark themes and story.

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   What is Glassland about?

   • A stark, deeply moving examination of a family stretched beyond breaking point by addiction and poverty. As a slow-burning, micro-budgeted Irish indie steeped in grim realities and propulsive emotions, Glassland is a vehicle that allows Reynor to truly shine.

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   Is Glassland a movie about alcoholism?

   • In “ Glassland ,” Toni Collette’s portrayal of an embittered Irish woman drinking herself to death in her shabby home on the outskirts of Dublin, is one of the most unsparing screen depictions of extreme alcoholism that I can remember. For much of its running time, the movie gazes unblinkingly into an abyss of poverty and hopelessness.

   Review: ‘Glassland,’ the Brittle Territory of Love and Addiction

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   How does Glassland run into trouble?

   • “Glassland” runs into serious trouble when John, desperate to come up with money for Jean’s rehabilitation, accepts an illegal job that the publicity notes say has something do with human trafficking. But what that means is left so unclear that “Glassland” is thrown into confusion in later scenes that don’t make sense.

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   Feb 12, 2016 · A young Dublin taxi driver deals with his alcoholic mother's decline. Bleak, tough, brilliantly acted trip down a familiar road.

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   As a slow-burning, micro-budgeted Irish indie steeped in grim realities and propulsive emotions, Glassland is a vehicle that allows Reynor to truly shine. Full Review | Original Score: 3.25/5...

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   Feb 11, 2016 · In “Glassland,” Toni Collette’s portrayal of an embittered Irish woman drinking herself to death in her shabby home on the outskirts of Dublin, is one of the most unsparing screen depictions ...

   • Author: Stephen Holden

   • Director: Gerard Barrett

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   Feb 12, 2016 · Awards. John (Jack Reynor) lives with his mother, Jean (Toni Collette), in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. John returns home one morning to find his mother unconscious from an alcohol overdose – this was not the first time.

   • 66% (16)
   • Director: Gerard Barrett

   • Content Rating: R

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   Apr 19, 2015 · Last seen playing a heroically hunky rally driver in Transformers: Age of Extinction, Jack Reynor gets behind the wheel again for gritty Irish drama Glassland, but this time the setting couldn’t be more grimly realistic. He’s John, a young Dublin taxi driver stoically working nights in order to support his alcoholic mother (Toni Collette).

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   Feb 11, 2016 · John (Jack Reynor) must work for a petty criminal to pay for his mother's rehab program in the new film Glassland. In one of several lovely grace notes in Glassland, a domestic drama from Irish...