So, yes my fellow Jason Isaac junkies; I have FINALLY sat down...and watched....
"Divorcing Jack."
Based on the book by Colin Bateman, who wrote the screenplay as well, it's a crazy trip to Northern Ireland with a drunken columnist who happens to cheat on his wife with a young girl who happens to be related to a politician who knows the current elect prime minister of NI. After spending his second night with the young girl who gave him a "D" tape as a present from the collection of classical music tapes from A to Z her father sent early for her birthday, Dan Starkey(like Ringo, btw and played incredibly by the amazing David Thewlis) returns after getting junk food to find his lover murdered. As she tells him in her dying breath, the words that Dan gets is "divorcing.....Jack" as she gurgles on her blood.
Uh, euw.
Dan realizes his wife had caught him with his lover, so he assumed she did it but she only tossed a handful of potaotes into her window. As Dan is speaking to his wife on the phone asking why she murdered the girl Dan's wife Patricia is suddenly kidnapped by IRA thugs, their leader being Patrick Keegan, aka Jason Isaacs who plays the bad guy/thug part quite well. Uh, watch "Brotherhood" if you don't believe me. So, basically, poor Dan then goes on this wild goose chase trying to figure out who would murder his lover Margaret and why she said "divorcing Jack" which...is not what she meant to say as well as trying to avoid the police, IRA thugs w/one of them looking like a reject from the extra actors off the "Sopranos" as well as trying to entertain a Boston Globe reporter named Charlie Parker who was there covering the so-called Belfast "peace talks" and getting a bit of help from a nun, who isn't quite what she seems.
This is basically a black romantic comedy that pokes a bit of fun at all things Irish, and in particular, all things in Northern Ireland, IE, the so-called "peace talks" and the contradiction of their politicians, the usual Irish drinking, Catholics and Protestants against each other and is just overall completely ridiculously yet extremely funny and entertaining. It reminds me of a Guy Richie movie and I would not be surprised at all if Guy got a bit of his filming influence from Colin. You can also see a bit of the Monty Python influence here with it's slapstick, it's off the wall bit and just overall silly British humour. I added a "u" to humor for the mood of this article. Whatchya think?
Now I want to read the book!
You can rent "Divorcing Jack" at Joe's "Video Strip" on Archer Avenue, or via Netflicks, or you can watch it on Comcast "OnDemand" under the "Encore" channel selection.
By the way....this is most certainly not a flick for the kiddies. Get them to bed, have a couple of cocktails and munchies and hang w/your adult sig. other or buds and have a great laugh! You may want the subtitles up to get what the Irish/English actors are saying as it's a bit tricky to figure their accent out if you're not privy to an Irish brogue or an English accent.
