Divorcing Jack springs from the crazed writing brain of Irish novelist Colin Bateman, described as a cross between Roddy Doyle (The Van) and cult Miami writer Carl Hiassen (Skin Deep). And it's certainly very different from most films involving the Irish `Troubles'. This bizarre black comedy is a blend of political satire, love story and man-on-the-run thriller, complete with a pistol-packing nun stripogram (Griffiths), designer-suited terrorists and musically-choreographed shoot-outs. Familiar newsreel images of bomb-damaged Belfast are conspicuously absent.
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