Inside I'm Dancing

7.7
2004 1 hr 44 min Drama

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.

  • Cast:
    James McAvoy , Romola Garai , Steven Robertson , Brenda Fricker , Ruth McCabe , Tom Hickey , Stanley Townsend

Reviews

GamerTab
2004/10/15

That was an excellent one.

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Wordiezett
2004/10/16

So much average

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ChicRawIdol
2004/10/17

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

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Billy Ollie
2004/10/18

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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akash_sebastian
2004/10/19

Written by Jeffrey Caine ('GoldenEye', 'The Constant Gardener') and directed by Damien O'Donnell ('East is East'), this is a heart-warming, character-driven comedy-drama which teaches you how to live, and inspires you to be the best you can possibly be. The film moves you, as well as finds humour in the most unusual places, and that's what makes the movie so enjoyable.Michael is sad, dull ans shy guy in a Home-for-Disabled who has cerebral palsy and can't talk comprehensibly. Rory, the new guy with muscle dystrophy, is a complete rebel and has a way with his words and wit. Both their lives change for the best.Jsmes McAvoy and newcomer Steven Robertson are brilliant and funny in their portrayals of Rory and Michael respectively. The background score is captivating.

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mharirbafan
2004/10/20

Sometimes in life you don't expect some films to change your imaginations but it's true and it can be changed. Seeing that one little problem of disabled peoples can be that kind of difficult to dealt with you can assume you're so lucky to be not disabled. Of course you know that you are crippled but not in those ways they are. Maybe our emotions and minds isn't in its right place or maybe we forget in could been happened to all of us. Anyway I'm so happy that I saw "Inside I'm Dancing" it is an exceptional movie to watch even though it's rhythm is too slow but it's working here. The music is completely synced and perfectly suited and beside some of dialogs are so difficult to understand the writing and directing is good. 10/10.

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Sindre Kaspersen
2004/10/21

Irish screenwriter and director Damien O'Donnell's third feature film which was written by Jeffrey Caine after a story by Irish writer Christian O'Reilly, is an Ireland-France-UK co-production and was shot in Dublin and the country town Wicklow in Ireland. It tells the story about Michael Connely, a 24-year-old man with Cerebral palsy who lives at a Residential Home for the Disabled called Carrigmores nearby Dublin. Michael lives a quiet life and doesn't say much, but his life is turned upside down the day Rory O'Shea arrives at Carrigmores. Rory's rebellious attitude and quick-witted humor awakens Michael's spirit, and when Rory let's him in on a plan that could get them both a place of their own he immediately agrees. Rory's plan works out fine and they move in together in an apartment in Dublin. Michael and Rory are pleased with their new life, but their friendship is conflicted when they hire a young woman named Sioban to assist them in their new home.Subtly and engagingly directed by Irish filmmaker Damien O'Donnell, this humane and humorous tale, draws a profoundly moving portrayal of a bonding friendship between two disabled young men who tries to find a way out of an institution in order to gain a certain degree of independence. While notable for it's naturalistic milieu depictions, the fine cinematography by Irish cinematographer Peter Robertson and the great score by English musician and composer David Julyan, this empathic and incisive drama depicts two in-depth and intertwining studies of character about two young men whose only wish is to experience the things other same-aged people do and who finds themselves in an afflicting dilemma when they fall in love with the same woman. This character-driven, dialog-driven and finely paced independent film which examines poignant themes, is impelled and reinforced by the heartfelt and impressive acting performances by Scottish actor James McAvoy, Scottish actor Steven Robertson in his debut feature film role and English actress Romola Garai. A compassionately written and memorable film which gained, among other awards, the Audience Award at the 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2004 and the People's Choice Award for Best Irish Film at the 2nd Irish Film and Television Awards in 2005.

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anita_delre
2004/10/22

This movie transcends "story-telling" - a rare movie that, like a dream, elicits feeling and perception about a situation that does not immediately or personally apply to the dreamer - that are virtually impossible while conscious. Ever dream of confronting a tornado or trying to outrun a tsunami - a situation in which you've never found yourself? This is reason enough to see the movie.The story itself is touching, bittersweet and more ... I don't know what ending would have been more emotional - the actual or the other alternative. Little did I know that I would develop an embarrassing fan-crush on this actor a couple of years after I'd seen this movie: James McEvoy. I will have to see it again, and yes, I will buy it. What a range he has, and he was the shining star of the film (but then, so was his sidekick).Might as well buy it.

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