Comedy drama based on the true story, starring Richard Dormer and Jodie Whittaker. Belfast in the 1970s: as the Troubles continue to escalate, idealistic DJ Terri Hooley decides to open a new record shop, Good Vibrations, to bring reggae music to the city and encourage peace. But, instead he discovers punk rock and becomes a record producer to promote the new musical genre.
The sectarian struggles of Northern Ireland in the late 1970s would seem an unlikely backdrop for a feel-good comedy drama, but this storming biopic of Belfast music promoter Terri Hooley is an exciting reminder of the prevailing power of rock. Hooley (Richard Dormer) is a small-time DJ who launches a record shop on a wing and a prayer, branching out into record production when unsigned local bands start pouring through his door. None - save the Undertones, whose song Teenage Kicks was a flagship release for Hooley's Good Vibrations label in 1978 - ever really dented the charts, but this unruly, charming film isn't so much bothered with Hooley's success on a grand scale as it is with the way he reinvigorated a city at war with itself. With Hooley as Pied Piper, the film shows how the city's music fans did everything the politicians couldn't, coming together - all faiths and backgrounds - to beat an unlikely, beer-sodden path for the peace process to follow.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Terri Hooley | Richard Dormer |
| Ruth | Jodie Whittaker |
| Dave | Michael Colgan |
| George | Karl Johnson |
| Davy | Liam Cunningham |
| Andy | Adrian Dunbar |
| Pat | Dylan Moran |
| Young Terri Hooley | Cathal Maguire |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Lisa Barros D'Sa |
| Director | Glenn Leyburn |
