Divorcing Jack (1998)

Director
David Caffrey

Main cast
David Thewlis; Rachel Griffiths; Jason Isaacs; Laura Fraser; Richard Gant

Genres
Comedy, Foreign, Romance

Description
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the young woman he has just made love to dead and his only ally is a nun


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