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The Tiger's Tail (2006)
Director: John Boorman
Movie review
From Time Out Chicago
Owing less to Trading Places than to Dostoevsky and Frankenstein, The Tiger’s Tail is a prince-and-the-pauper story that plays out with genuinely frightening inevitability. Gleeson is superb as both an unscrupulous real-estate developer, Liam, and the mysterious double he nearly runs over one evening, who later accosts him and proceeds to take over his life. No surprise that this stranger becomes a very different kind of father to Liam’s son (Briain Gleeson) and complicates the feelings of Liam’s long-ignored wife (Cattrall). This isn’t the kind of film that wins awards, but Boorman gives the proceedings a brisk pace and a slightly surreal, fantastical air—a stylistic choice that lets the film down only at its conclusion.Author: Ben Kenigsberg
Time Out Chicago Issue 191: October 23–29, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: John Boorman
Producer: John Boorman, Kieran Corrigan, John Buchanan
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Sinead Cusack, Ciaran Hinds, Sean McGinley, Cathy Belton full cast
Duration: 107 mins
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