Cherrybomb *** (2009, Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, James Nesbitt, Kimberley Nixon) – Classic Movie Review 4632

Rupert Grint stars as teenager Malachy who is spending his holidays working at the Titanic leisure centre and enjoying the company of his dangerous drug-dealing best buddy Luke (Robert Sheehan) in the Belfast suburbs in summer.

With both of their heads turned on the arrival of the flirtatiously lovely Michelle (Kimberley Nixon), the daughter of the centre’s manager Crilly (James Nesbitt), Malachy takes drugs, gets drunk and goes joy-riding to try to compete with Luke to get her into bed.

Making the break from Harry Potter, Rupert Grint’s extremely skilled and delightful performance is the making of this most appealing, likeable and sexy youth-oriented coming-of-age drama in the Skins vein.

But Sheehan is quite the mischievous charmer too, while Nixon drives everyone to their distraction or destruction like a perfect siren and Nesbitt inhabits his role naturally and totally.

The film includes nudity, drinking, drugs, shop-lifting and car theft. Grint said he was embarrassed shooting Malachy’s nude sex scene, though more so later when watching the scene with his parents.

© Derek Winnert 2016 Classic Movie Review 4632

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