In order to be better than his family, Michael chose to be a decent effective man after the drugs drove his mom to her passing and his dad to the jail. It appears that the terrible destiny takes after the majority of this family, Michael is gotten with a drugs sack which doesn't belong to him. He is sent to jail like his dad.
1954, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
April 09, 2018
It's moving, emotionally gripping and every scene has the ring of truth.
September 12, 2018
Good research must have helped Berry attain his 20/20 peripheral vision. No minutia or refraction-of-a-minutia seems false.
September 12, 2018
It's a prison film and a social-realist picture of the Loachian school: fierce, unsentimental, engrossing.
September 17, 2018
Frank Berry's Irish prison film Michael Inside... is a stripped back and unrelenting take on the sub-genre focusing on the long-term effects of incarceration and drug involvement on Ireland's youth
April 19, 2018
Stunningly acted, never didactic and yet provoking endless important questions, Michael Inside is a searing portrait of a damaged system, and the boys we lose to it.
April 05, 2018
It is the generous humanism underlying the documentary realism that sets the film apart.
April 04, 2018
[Frank] Berry directs with the eye of a documentary maker but could show plenty of others a thing or two about keeping the tension in a drama from start to finish.
April 09, 2018
It's no easy watch, that's for sure -- but it's an important one. Stellar Irish film-making.
April 09, 2018
It's insightful and compassionate without ever being mawkish about people we perhaps all too easily choose to write off.
February 28, 2018
Teenagers who have encountered the sharp end of the system, even to a lesser degree, will find much to relate to here.
September 14, 2018
It's cautionary and terrifying with a tough fatalistic ending.
April 09, 2018
Berry has a clear vision of our social problems; his film opens the doors of our prison system and draws the viewer inside.
