Divorcing Jack
– He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper colum..
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the young woman he has just made love to dead and his only ally is a nun
02 Oct 1998
English
David Caffrey
Colin Bateman (novel), Colin Bateman (screenplay)
David Thewlis, Rachel Griffiths, Jason Isaacs, Laura Fraser
A married drunk hooks up with the ex-girlfriend of a vicious local criminal. He gets booted out of home for his infidelity, has a murderer on his tail, and must try to write the story of his life in order to save his journalism job. He gets help from a stripper dressed as a nun and goes undercover dressed as Shaggy from Scooby Doo. He finds a drinking buddy in an American fellow journalist.
2 wins & 2 nominations.