Additional information for Garage, which has a domestic theatrical release set for 2010. The film is being distributed by Soda Pictures and has not yet been rated. Garage has a total running time of 85 minutes.
15A
Ireland
14A
Canada
18
UK
Unrated
France
MA
Australia
R16
New Zealand
M/12
Portugal
85min
85min
Garage
France
Garage
Greece
Garage
Portugal
Garázs
Hungary
Garaje
Spain
Josie no shûri kôjô
Japan
Stacja benzynowa
Poland
May 19, 2007
France
July 12, 2007
France
July 30, 2007
France
September 08, 2007
Canada
September 20, 2007
Greece
October 05, 2007
Ireland
November 25, 2007
Italy
January 09, 2008
France
February 28, 2008
Portugal
March 07, 2008
UK
April , 2008
USA
June 04, 2008
USA
July 24, 2008
Spain
August 07, 2008
Argentina
August 13, 2008
Belgium
September 20, 2008
Finland
November 23, 2008
Japan
November 30, 2008
Germany
March 12, 2009
Germany
April 16, 2009
Netherlands
June 05, 2009
Italy
June 24, 2009
Australia
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A tragicomedy set in the world of gas stations in rural Ireland, where over-diligent employee of the garage searches for intimacy during the course of a life-changing summer.
Josie (Pat Shortt) has lived his whole lonely life in a small Irish village, working in a garage for a former classmate, Mr. Gallagher (John Keogh). Gallagher, it is said, is waiting for the right offer from developers so he can sell. One day rolls into another for Josie with nothing but his menial job and a few pints in the local pub to entertain him. His drinking buddies in the pub, especially Breffni (Don Wycherley), mock him and his ways.Josie seems oddly happy with his banal existence, however his working day in the garage is altered when his boss hires his girlfriend's son, David (Conor Ryan) to help Josie. Josie is content to talk to someone different and happy not to be labelled like he has been by the rest of the town. Soon, he joins David and other local teenagers down by the railway tracks drinking beer and he gets the courage to dance with a local shopkeeper called Carmel (Ann-Marie Duff). However Carmel appears to hurt Josie when she explains, explicitly, that she has no physical attraction towards him. As the friendship between Josie and David progresses, Josie shows David (who is 15 years old) a pornographic film which Josie received from a trucker who frequents the petrol station. Later on in the film, Josie is taken to the local Garda (police) station and informed that there has been a complaint made against him by David's mother who has found out that Josie has supplied David with alcohol and shown him inappropriate material. Josie is instructed to stay away from the town and especially to avoid contact with David or David's family. Josie stresses that it was all just a bit of "craic" and "pure innocent", but also feels disgraced and ashamed of himself. Josie's stress can be seen when he arrives home from the Garda station and pauses from his dinner to sigh, obviously agitated and confused. The film ends in slight ambiguity as we see Josie rise early in the morning and walk down to the local lake. There, he sits for a while, after which he removes his shoes, socks and cap and wades into the water. The final shot of Josie shows a rear shot of Josie progressing into the water, arms outstretched. The final clip of the film is of a horse walking towards the screen along the railway tracks. This is the same horse which Josie fed apples to earlier in the film. Just as the horse was locked in the field, so too was Josie locked into his own little world. It is assumed that Josie set the horse free and then set himself free by committing suicide in the lake.
Lenny Abrahamson
Director(s)
Mark O'Halloran
Writer(s)
Peter Carlton
executive producer
Ed Guiney
producer
Andrew Lowe
executive producer
Catherine Magee
line producer
Producer(s)
Stephen Rennicks
Composer(s)
Josie
Pat Shortt
Mr. Gallagher
John Keogh
Dan
George Costigan
Carmel
Anne-Marie Duff
David
Conor Ryan
Vivienne
Anne Byrne
Val
Gary Lilburn
Bon
Brian Doherty
Breffni
Don Wycherley
Sully
Andrew Bennett
Declan
Tommy Fitzgerald
Louise
Suzy Lawlor
Woman at Pumps
Fiona Kelly
Mr. Skerrit
Tom Hickey
Pauline
Una Kavanagh
Regina
Katie Whelan
Leonard
Adam O'Toole
Garda Michael
Denis Conway
Garda
Anne Boyle
Lester
Jason Nelligan
Director(s)
Writer(s)
executive producer
Ed Guiney
producer
Andrew Lowe
executive producer
Catherine Magee
line producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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