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Article: `On a Clear Day'.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2006
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Byline: Craig Outhier
In "On a Clear Day," Scottish actor Peter Mullan ("My Name Is Joe") plays Frank Redmond, an out-of-work shipbuilder whose quest to swim the English Channel becomes a source of inspiration to everyone around him.
And I mean everyone. His wife, his son, his buddies from work, the guy at the fish-and-chips shop, maybe his urologist, though we don't ever actually see that.
In the spirit of things, I'd like to announce that I'm inspired, too _ inspired to stand up to well-meaning British formula such as this and say "I'm not really buying it." Whew, what a breakthrough.
Mullan is his usual flinty, feisty self as ...