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“Are you fucking retarded?” says Maisie Williams (Game Of Thrones) to her tired dad in this droll Irish indie, making it clear from the off that Ray’s restore to the fold – perfect with sofa strapped precariously to his car roof – won’t be a pleased family reunion. And so it proves, as David Wilmot’s recovering depressive proceeds to send Williams’ PE teacher stepdad (James Nesbitt) to casualty and seduce his wife while he’s hospitalised.

If it was indeed Niall Heery’s aim to transplant The Royal Tenenbaums to suburban Dublin, he’s done an OK job – Nesbitt’s even wearing Ben Stiller’s tracksuit.

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