Dermot Healy

Movies

The Second Death
Chess Player
On a lonely country road, James Mangan hears a voice from his past and comes to realise he is damned.
I Could Read the Sky
The Old Man
The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He recalls his early life in the west of Ireland, his first love, emigrating to England, searching for his brother Joe, who disappeared after he emigrated several years previously. His marriage and wife's later depth is also remembered.
The Butcher Boy
Bogman in Hospital
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.