Bono Raves About Irish Film 'Good Vibrations'
Award-winning film GOOD VIBRATIONS has received unanimous praise across the board with 4* and 5* reviews from critics with rave reactions from movie fans and music lovers worldwide including Bono, Ron Howard, Mark Kermode and Bobby Gillespie. Don't miss out on the feel-good film of the year - Good Vibrations is on 35 screens from 5th April and will continue in 30 cinemas nationwide on its 3rd week of release from Friday 12th April.
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"Richard Dormer's performance is a transcendent, anarchic, amazing joy! If you love music, movies or being alive you'll love Good Vibrations! Plus I now have 11 and 13 year old punk rockers at home...thanks very much" Bono
"Rock and Roll music has the power to change lives, this film proves it" -Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream)
"Saw a terrific new Irish indie based on true story called Good Vibrations. Inspiring, funny, great music and character moments. Look for it" Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard
"I cried twice... tears of joy... I loved it" Mark Kermode
Already a winner at the Galway Film Fleadh for BEST IRISH FILM and AUDIENCE AWARD at Belfast Film Festival, Good Vibrations is the heart-warming and uplifting story of Belfast music legend Terri Hooley, the man responsible for discovering The Undertones and recording Teenage Kicks, giving alternative music a chance to flourish 1970s Belfast.
Terri Hooley is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast, when the Troubles shuts down his city. As all his friends take sides and take up arms, Terri opens a record shop on the most bombed half-mile in Europe and calls it Good Vibrations. Through it he discovers a compelling voice of resistance in the city's nascent underground punk scene. Galvanising the young musicians into action, he becomes the unlikely leader of a motley band of kids and punks who join him in his mission to create a new community, an Alternative Ulster, to bring his city back to life.
Good Vibrations features performances from Liam Cunningham (The Guard, The Wind that Shakes the Barley) Adrian Dunbar (Ashes to Ashes, Mo), Dylan Moran (Run Fatboy Run, Sean of the Dead), Killian Scott (Love / Hate), Andrew Simpson (Notes on a Scandal), Mark Ryder (Albatross) and Kerr Logan (Game of Thrones) as Fergal Sharkey. It is the second film from Cherrybomb directing duo Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn and scored by David Holmes (Ocean's Eleven, Analyze That); Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, Jonny Quinn and Nathan Connelly, who have known and loved Terri for many years, are executive producers. Producers are Chris Martin, Andrew Eaton, Bruno Charlesworth and David Holmes.
GOOD VIBRATIONS is produced by Andrew Eaton (The Trip) and Chris Martin (Peacefire) with David Holmes (Ocean's Eleven) also on the producing team. Executively produced by Robert Walpole and Rebecca O'Flanagan (Treasure Entertainment), Joe Oppenheimer (BBC Films), Nigel Thomas (Matador Pictures) and Bruno Charlesworth (Immaculate Conception Films), the film is financed by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board (IFB), BBC Films, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC Northern Ireland, Immaculate Conception Films, Matador Pictures and Cinema One. The film is a Canderblinks Film & Music, Revolution Films and Treasure Entertainment production.
Cert: 15a
Running time: 97 mins
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