Reefer and the Model (1988)

Cast

Ian McElhinney, Carol Moore, Sean Lawlor, Ray McBride, Eve Watkinson

Overview

Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcome a drug addiction. They head to the trawler where he lives with friends Spider and Badger, that operates between Galway and the Aran Islands. The makeshift family are forced to turn to crime to make a living.