Wild About Harry
With Brendan Gleeson, Amanda Donohoe, Adrian Dunbar.
Ireland , 2001, 35mm, color, 100 min.
After a bad beating, TV chief and Belfast celebrity Harry McKee (Gleeson, The General) slips into a temporary coma and loses all recollection of the past twenty-five years of his life. As it happens, these years were not well spent, and Harry, believing himself to be eighteen again, is offered the chance of starting over and making amends with his estranged wife and family. A homicidal maniac bent on murdering Harry live on the air rounds out this romantic comedy and a sharp satire of TV celebrity, written by acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Colin Bateman.
This disarming, award-winning animated short, which the Irish Times called a "five-minute masterpiece," gives new life to a 1960s audio tape recording of a Dublin schoolgirl fancifully recounting of the "shocking holy" story of John the Baptist.