I started making comedy sketches over 10 years ago and posted them here, and you were all very supportive. It was the stepping stone I needed to push forward and make a little career out of it.

Now today I've released a trailer for my first short film HOMETIME. It's a very special film that means a lot to me, and I want to thank the people r/Ireland for the support over the years.

It's a short film set working class Dublin during the 90s. A child spends the day in a pub helplessly standing by as his ma drinks herself into a dangerous state.





by stabinthedart

36 comments

  1. I used to work in a pub and witnessed this regularly. The woman in question is dry now, and the son is in and out of trouble all the time. The poor fucker never had a chance really.

  7. Ah Joe’s short film, been waiting to see this for a while. Fair play for posting it here.

  10. Not to doubt the movie looks fantastic.. All we seem to know is depression and heartache in Irish cinema.

  11. That’s a powerful film. I hope it gets all the recognition it deserves. Really awesome job, OP

  12. Looks like Monday Club…. fun times in the boom! How and why kids were subjected to that is beyond me.

  13. Looks haunting. I grew up in a rough part of clondalkin and knew kids like this. I didn’t realise it at the time but looking back it is plain to see.

    Makes me appreciate my parents, for all their faults they were still amazing

  14. Looks excellent and also depressing as fuck. Best of luck with it OP and fair play.

  15. Congrats OP, that’s a massive undertaking, I wish you every success with it, hopefully it’s a step closer to your dreams.

  17. Well this is heartbreakingly familiar, except it was my widowed da who raised me as a lone parent. I understand as an adult now it was his means to escape his grief, but these were some lonely days sitting on the stairs of The Bachelor Inn with nothing but a packet of tayto for company

  18. Be cool if the short was depressing and the long got the kid outta the mess. IDK what Irish Troupe that could be, maybe starts a band, is watched by an old man who teaches him about life and then dies, football coach, musician playing trad or maybe the fry cook could teach him how to make chips and take out the trash.

  19. grim stuff. for some reason I kept expecting it to veer off into psychological fantasy horror.

  21. Looks amazing , and I’m sure many can relate , will definitely be watching it , well done 👏

  22. I’ve a group of friends who all grew up in the same part of Dublin and two of us were reminiscing once about all the pubs we grew up in and which had the best car parks for playing in and sweet shops you could walk to and carpets that were nice for napping under the tables and benches and the rest of our friends were looking at us like “Jesus fucking Christ you poor kids”. You don’t know it’s weird til you’re older.

  23. The young boy is a great actor! It looks really good.

    Whenever I visited Ireland I stayed in some rural pubs and while I found it to be quite interesting that people bring their dogs and kids to the pub, play games and sing instead of drinking in lonely silence like it’s done in rural German bars, it always made me wonder how that affects the children. I hope I will be able to see this somehow.

  25. I’m a daughter of an alcoholic (and he died of alcoholism). This js painful. Have you read Shuggie Bain?

  28. Actually spent most of my career working for the largest film editing and audio software companies in the world – Avid/Digidesign. So yes I have. My point is that Irish films – and our music – does tend to focus on misery. I wish OP well, it’s just not for me.

  29. Wow, can’t wait to check this out.

    Real Andrea Arnold vibes from this, reminds me of her short film ‘Wasp’.

  30. Mother of jaysus, I have buried a lot of shit. Thanks for that OP.

    Ma during the week, Da at the weekend. 4-5 days a week during the summer.

    Mid thirties now, hadn’t entered my mind in years, consciously.

  31. Please post here when it’s released fully. Trailer looks really good, would love to watch it.

  33. Ooooophh!
    That hit. Hard.

    Beautiful shot OP.
    Best of luck and well done for following and sharing your passion and talent.

    Wishing it all the best and looking forward to seeing it.

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