Backdrop fallback

Gold

Gold

Share

Gold

"He came looking for a second opportunity and he found..."

2014

1h 28m

6.3(31 votes)

Family

Comedy

Drama

Overview

An offbeat comedy about an estranged father who returns to his hometown after an absence of ten years in order to reconnect with his daughter and ex-wife but unwittingly finds himself responsible for almost destroying all their lives.

Links & Resources

Social & External

Production Companies

Subotica

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

James Nesbitt

James Nesbitt

Frank McGunn

David Wilmot

David Wilmot

Ray

Kerry Condon

Kerry Condon

Alice

Maisie Williams

Maisie Williams

Abbie

Steven Mackintosh

Steven Mackintosh

Gerry

Patrick Gibson

Patrick Gibson

Devon

Aela O'Flynn

Dawn

Ashley MGuire

Rosie

Dónal Haughey

Stuart

Gary Lydon

Gary Lydon

Tommy

Creative team

Directed by: Niall Heery
Written by: Brendan Heery
Niall Heery
Produced by: Tristan Lynch
Aoife O'Sullivan

Similar Movies

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

A retelling of the story of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at fifteen to her reign as queen at nineteen and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Bubba Ho-tep

Bubba Ho-tep

The "true" story of what really became of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.

Seaside Treats

Seaside Treats

The first official video released by Cardiacs, the video contains a ten-minute segment known as The Consultant's Flower Garden, which features the band and other people connected to the band performing several bizarre alternative comedy sketches. This is followed by three music videos.

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers

An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.

The Year of the Rat

The Year of the Rat

A down-on-his-luck petty criminal gets in over his head when an old friend shows up.

Clerks

Clerks

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

I'm Not There

I'm Not There

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

Annie Hall

Annie Hall

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

Hôtel Minéral

Hôtel Minéral

On the edge of the ring road, at the top of a concrete tower block, Mapi listens every night to the voice messages sent to her by Gabi, her boyfriend whom she has mysteriously stopped answering. The other tenants would like to understand their friend's silence, but within the walls of the Hôtel Minéral, it seems difficult for anyone to re-establish communication.

A Heist with Markiplier

A Heist with Markiplier

You join Markiplier on the heist of a lifetime, but in this original comedic interactive story you decide how the heist turns out in the end. Choose wisely.

May December

May December

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

The Moment

The Moment

A rising pop sensation navigates fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

The Rounders

The Rounders

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

Mabel's Blunder

Mabel's Blunder

Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.

American Fiction

American Fiction

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Modern Romance

Modern Romance

A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.

Ramona at Midlife

Ramona at Midlife

A single mother and former Literary It Girl discovers that her unflattering current reality is the subject of a hot filmmaker’s newest project.

Satanic Hispanics

Satanic Hispanics

When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.

Whitney

Whitney

Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.

Recommended Movies

The Clique

The Clique

A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.

Wildflower

Wildflower

The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.

Problem Child 2

Problem Child 2

Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.

Somewhere in Queens

Somewhere in Queens

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

Landline

Landline

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Code 3

Code 3

A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.

CQ

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - The Play

Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - The Play

The fireworks begin when Madea’s family gathers for her granddaughter’s wedding. As usual, Madea rules the roost, as she and her neighbor, the wacky Mr. Brown, deliver nonstop laughs. Live, love, rejoice...it’s Madea’s Family Reunion!

House of D

House of D

In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.

Family Weekend

Family Weekend

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

Barbarians at the Gate

Barbarians at the Gate

F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumours.

Small Apartments

Small Apartments

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

10 Years

10 Years

A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation.

Intermission

Intermission

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.

Almost Friends

Almost Friends

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.

Daddy Longlegs

Daddy Longlegs

After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives.

Thick as Thieves

Thick as Thieves

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss and a female police officer try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s.

Thin Ice

Thin Ice

A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.

About Alex

About Alex

When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.