Divorcing Jack: A Dan Starkey Mystery (Dan Starkey Mysteries)

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Front-runner Michael Brinn (Robert Lindsay) is running on a peace ticket, and is opposed by hard-liners on both sides. The film's messages about the horrors and idiocy of war and particularly the Irish civil war are familiar and would have been corny in a straight drama, but as in Catch-22 and other classic black comedies, the absurd humor of the film makes it powerful.

Parker endeavors to help his friend, but all too soon is himself a victim of rival forces trying to locate the vital evidence for which the unfortunate Margaret was murdered. Starkey also gets himself shot at by paramilitaries that night, but he is saved by Lee Cooper, a nurse-by-day, stripper-by-night. However, it turns out that Parker has been held hostage by Keegan and his goons, and that the meeting was set up to trap Starkey.A good read, not that funny for a dark comedy, but a fresh take on the Troubles without avoiding the issues. It is a dark, black comedy and there are signs that it's not ageing well, but if viewed in context it's fine.

Colin Bateman’s screenplay, based on his novel, covers a lot of ground, but could have been tidied up for the screen.

Starkey realises that Margaret's last words were not divorce Jack, but rather an attempt to say the name of the composer on the tape Starkey had been given earlier, a tape that he had now sold to a street-vendor. Years ago, when he was very young, Brinn was a in a 6-member cell of the Irish Republican Army and he was responsible for a bombing at the Paradise Restaurant that killed eight people. Thewlis plays Dan Starkey, a newspaper columnist who doesn’t take his work too seriously, who drinks too much and whose wife is beginning to object to his behavior.

Time after time he was kidnapped, beaten, shot, released, escaped or saved, and the book ended with him alive and went home to his wife.Remake of the 1961 Disney comedy about separated identical twins who meet at camp, change places and hatch a plot to reunite their divorced parents. Our online collections hold information on over 800,000 film titles – including television programmes, documentaries, newsreels, as well as educational and training films. Hard to credit it, really, but Thewlis hasn't had a lead role since his Cannes-conquering turn as the poetry-spouting and blisteringly nihilistic Johnny in Mike Leigh's Naked in 1993.