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Title: What's therumpus?
Review: This was criminally (!) overlooked when originally released on screen. Featuring magnificent perfomances from Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Hardin, Jon Polito and, in particular, Gabriel Byrne this wonderful gangster film is, by turns, dark, funny, violent, intriguing and with a continuously twisting plotline. Pretty much everything about it is pitched just about right. Without the extraordinary central performance by Gabriel Byrne though, it might not have been quite so impressive. How on earth did he not even get nominated for an Oscar for this performance? His Tom is world weary, heartless, complex, loyal, cunning, manipulative, attractive, repellant and both sympathetic and unsympathetic and all at the same time. Very few actors could have pulled this off with the aplomb shown by Byrne. His natural Dublin accent is an added bonus.
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