Sunburn

A group of Irish college students are about to leave for the United States, where they've landed summer jobs in Long Island, when a slightly shady friend of one of the gang, Davin (Cillian Murphy), decides to tag along as a quick way out of a doomed romance. While the students all have jobs and ...more

S Club 7 be damned -- those seeking an antidote to nubile-European-teens-on-holiday flicks need look no further than Nelson Hume's debut film, which scruffily charts the coming-of-age of about a dozen young Irishmen and women abroad. Sunburn may not be in the same league as such summer-job gems as Experience Preferred...But Not Essential, but it has a natural, unforced feel that overrides its at-times clichéd narrative. The natural cast -- led by the standout Cillian Murphy -- drinks, smokes, ...more