Cash-strapped widower Brian Cox runs a fish and chip shop in an Irish seaside town, in this vaguely humorous yarn about an Irish-Italian family. Business is poor, Cox owes money, so his eldest son Peter McDonald decides to rob bookie Brendan Gleeson. A day-by-day account of a week in the company of a group of soap-opera characters makes for an eventful but lightweight slice of life, in which a lot seems to be going on, but it's a lot of nothing very much. Cox and Gleeson are good actors, but they're hard-pressed to make this old blarney very appealing. The debut director, Conor McPherson, does better with the script, which has fresh and funny moments, than with turning out a sprauncy movie, which remains an obstinately underpowered TV-style drama. Quite likeable, all the same.