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The Tiger's Tail (2006)

Director: John Boorman

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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 2008-10-22 22:20:31

Time Out Chicago Issue 191: October 23–29, 2008

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The Tiger's Tail

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

Genre(s): Thrillers, Drama

Duration: 107 mins


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