The Tiger's Tail
(2007)While Liam appears to have it all: a big house; a trophy wife (Kim Cattrall); a thinking if rebellious teenage son (Gleeson); a flashy real estate development company; and even the cover of a newsmagazine. The magazine, however, catches the attention of his sinister double, whose face suddenly appears through Liam's rain-streaked car window while he's caught in a traffic jam. No one will believe Liam when he insists he has a double, but before long, this doppelganger lures him out of town and takes over his life. [Source: Variety]
-
Directed by John Boorman ('Excalibur', 'Deliverance', 'The Tailor of Panama', 'The General')
Starring Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack, Sean McGinley, Briain Gleeson
Written by John Boorman
The Peoples' Reviews
Your rating & review
Rate / Review this movieRate and/or review
The Tiger's Tail
The Press Reviews
15%
of critics recommend.
Rotten Tomatoes Score. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
Nine years on from their memorable crime biopic The General, veteran director John Boorman and burly star Brendan Gleeson reunite to considerably less striking effect in muddled satire The Tiger's Tail. Full Review
Bizarre doppelgänger melodrama set in the Irish Republic. Full Review
A flawed movie that works better as a fable than as a direct reflection of reality. Full Review
Messy identity-theft thriller is little more than a technically dodgy soap. Full Review
A top-form Brendan Gleeson returns to John Boorman's lopsided modern world in "The Tiger's Tail," arguably the director's most appealing entry since "The General." Playing dual roles as a rich Irish businessman riding the economic boom and his down-and-out twin, Gleeson animates Boorman's amusing Prince and the Pauper screenplay, which sports a dark social underbelly that puts Ireland's rich-poor divide centerstage. Full Review
Care to comment?