Michael Inside
After an overdose, Michael's mother is dead and his father has been sent to prison because of drugs too. He wants to make a better life. One day, all his dreams and plans break down when he is caught with a drugs bag that doesn't belong to him. His life turns to be a nightmare.
1954, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
April 09, 2018
It's no easy watch, that's for sure -- but it's an important one. Stellar Irish film-making.
September 14, 2018
It's cautionary and terrifying with a tough fatalistic ending.
April 09, 2018
Berry has a clear vision of our social problems; his film opens the doors of our prison system and draws the viewer inside.
April 05, 2018
It is the generous humanism underlying the documentary realism that sets the film apart.
April 09, 2018
It's moving, emotionally gripping and every scene has the ring of truth.
September 17, 2018
Frank Berry's Irish prison film Michael Inside... is a stripped back and unrelenting take on the sub-genre focusing on the long-term effects of incarceration and drug involvement on Ireland's youth
September 12, 2018
Good research must have helped Berry attain his 20/20 peripheral vision. No minutia or refraction-of-a-minutia seems false.
April 09, 2018
It's insightful and compassionate without ever being mawkish about people we perhaps all too easily choose to write off.
February 28, 2018
Teenagers who have encountered the sharp end of the system, even to a lesser degree, will find much to relate to here.
April 19, 2018
Stunningly acted, never didactic and yet provoking endless important questions, Michael Inside is a searing portrait of a damaged system, and the boys we lose to it.
April 04, 2018
[Frank] Berry directs with the eye of a documentary maker but could show plenty of others a thing or two about keeping the tension in a drama from start to finish.
September 12, 2018
It's a prison film and a social-realist picture of the Loachian school: fierce, unsentimental, engrossing.
