The Last Bus Home
(1997)
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The Pope visits Dublin in 1979 and Reena and Jessop meet. Three years later they have become a famous band in the town in which they live. But pressures within the band threaten it's stability and a record deal and a move to London add to the strain... |
Rather optimistically pitched as the punk version of The Commitments, this low-budget Irish effort remains an entertainingly rough and ready tale of the music business. Set at the end of the 1970s, Annie Ryan and Brian F O'Byrne are the idealistic punks determined to take the music world by storm with their band Dead Patriots. But when London beckons, their music dream begins to turn sour. Slick it ain't, but maybe that was the point, and old New Wavers and punks will love the attitude and the vintage soundtrack .