Albert Finney never seems to give a bad performance, even when a film's not all that great. Witness this rather plodding 'Oirish' romance, in which he settles comfortably into a familiar role as a bluff, unexpressive, just-widowed policeman having problems when his teenage son (Matt Keeslar) runs off. Then the handsome lad finds a pretty colleen (Victoria Smurfit), who lives north of the border, and makes her pregnant, giving old dad a new set of problems. Earth-shattering it's not, but this funny, antiquated hokum does have a mild sort of charm and allure. Director Peter Yates is in far too lazy and indulgent a mood - perhaps it's in the Irish air - as if he's on holiday, and Shane (Playboys) Connaughton's script (based on his novel) has no edge whatever. Even so, Finney and Keeslar keep it likeable in a very improbable, old-fashioned sort of way.

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