
An 18 year old man living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to 3 months in prison.... (Full plot summary below)
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An 18 year old man living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to 3 months in prison.
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| RTÉ (Ireland)Harry Guerin[Frank] Berry directs with the eye of a documentary maker but could show plenty of others a thing or two about keeping the tension in a drama from start to finish. |
| The Herald (Ireland)Chris WasserIt's no easy watch, that's for sure -- but it's an important one. Stellar Irish film-making. |
| Sunday Independent (Ireland)Aine O'ConnorIt's insightful and compassionate without ever being mawkish about people we perhaps all too easily choose to write off. |
| Hot PressRoe McDermottStunningly acted, never didactic and yet provoking endless important questions, Michael Inside is a searing portrait of a damaged system, and the boys we lose to it. |
| Times (UK)Kevin MaherIt's cautionary and terrifying with a tough fatalistic ending. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawIt's a prison film and a social-realist picture of the Loachian school: fierce, unsentimental, engrossing. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsGood research must have helped Berry attain his 20/20 peripheral vision. No minutia or refraction-of-a-minutia seems false. |
| Irish TimesDonald ClarkeIt is the generous humanism underlying the documentary realism that sets the film apart. |
| Sunday Times (UK)Katy HayesBerry has a clear vision of our social problems; his film opens the doors of our prison system and draws the viewer inside. |
| Screen QueensChloe LeesonFrank Berry's Irish prison film Michael Inside... is a stripped back and unrelenting take on the sub-genre focusing on the long-term effects of incarceration and drug involvement on Ireland's youth |