Donnybrook
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Synopsis
Three volatile personalities collide at a no-holds-barred bare-knuckle cage brawl called the Donnybrook. Jarhead Earl (Jamie Bell) is determined to provide stability for his two kids and a meth-addicted wife, even if he has to punch his way to a better life. The Donnybrook’s $100,000 prize proves impossible to resist, and Earl embarks upon a dangerous odyssey to compete in the fight.
Drug-dealing Angus siblings — broken Delia (Margaret Qualley) and impossibly dangerous Chainsaw (Frank Grillo) — also have their eye on the tournament, for very different reasons. As all three collide on the road, they are tested beyond their limits in a ruthlessly honest vision of middle America where people have lost all hope.
Cast
- Michael Agee
- Adam Bartley
- Jamie Bell
- Chris Browning
- Kevin Crowley
- James Badge Dale
- David Myers Gregory
- Frank Grillo
- Rhyan Elizabeth Hanavan
- Pat Healy
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Anchored by a quartet of fierce performances, “Donnybrook” is an intense, visceral tone poem, a rumination on money and drugs and bloodshed as a means of making ends meet in the heartland of modern America.
If you’re looking for a poverty-porn fix, Donnybrook ought to hit the spot. If not, you’ll likely find this a pointless exercise in gratuitous violence that imagines itself deep because it’s got an opera-heavy score.
Here, Sutton is working with actual characters, played by professional actors, and his instinct is to flatten them as much as possible.