Red Roses and Petrol
Red Roses and Petrol is a 2003 drama film based on the stage play of the same name by Joseph OConnor. The film was directed by Tamar Simon Hoffs, and stars Malcolm McDowell and Max Beesley. Was released in 2008.
Endas dazed widow, Moya Olivia Tracey, anxiously prepares for the next days funeral with her still stuckathome, twentysomething daughter Medbh Maeve Heather Juergensen, lending a loving hand. Moyas desperation to keep her family together and Medbhs sharp tongue provide the backdrop for the arrival from New York of headstrong older sister Catherine Susan Lynch, with her handsome but awkward boyfriend Tom Greg Ellis in tow. They doubt that Londonbased Johnny Max Beesley, the angry black sheep brother of the family, will appear at all. Sorting through boxes of Endas books, the women discover a cache of selfrecorded video diaries that might shed light on who Enda Doyle really was, and some of the secrets of his life that he was never able to share with them.At the funeral, the daughters see a distraught young woman from the university, Helen Catherine Farrell, rumored to be having an affair with Enda. Theyre stunned that she would show up so brazenly at a family gathering for the deceased Enda. Returning home, they find Johnny emerging halfnaked from the shower, after a quick tryst with a stewardess he met on his flight from London. A brilliant, wounded slacker, Johnny manages to irritate everyone to the edge of violence with his biting and sarcastic recall of the familys long buried memories. Johnnys confrontational behavior and bitter assessment of life with father, incite the clan into what can only be called unchecked family therapy. ........
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