The Closer You Get

The Closer You Get

93 mins | Comedy | Dec. 27, 2000

Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?

The Closer You Get

93 mins | Comedy | Dec. 27, 2000

The Closer You Get
Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Redwave Films
Original title The Closer You Get
Directors Aileen Ritchie
Writers Herbie Wave, William Ivory

Cast

Ian Hart

as Kieran O'Donnell

Sean McGinley

as Ian O'Donnell

Niamh Cusack

as Kate O'Leary

Ruth McCabe

as Mary Mulligan

Ewan Stewart

as Pat O'Leary

Pat Shortt

as Ollie Doyle

Cathleen Bradley

as Siobhan

Sean McDonagh

as Sean Mulligan

Risteard Cooper

as Father Hubert Mallone

Maureen O'Brien

as Dollie Doyle