Based on Rob Doyle's novel of the same name, director
Eoin Macken's Here Are the Young Men takes us back to
2003 Dublin where a group of aimless teenagers are drawn into a lifestyle of
violence. The film stars Dean Charles Chapman, Finn Cole, Anya Taylor-Joy, Emmett J Scanlan,
Travis Fimmel, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
and Conleth Hill.
Here Are the Young Men is on UK/ROI Digital from April 30th
with an Irish cinema release planned at some point.
Check out the trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
Dublin 2003. Aimless teenager Matthew (Chapman) and his disaffected friends leave school into a social vacuum of drink, drugs and thrill-seeking in one last summer of adolescence. Matthew romantically yearns after his free-spirited friend Jen (Taylor-Joy) and struggles to maintain his increasingly disturbing relationship with the magnetic but sadistic Kearney (Cole). Whilst their precocious friend Rez (Walsh-Peelo) has started to succumb to paranoia and depression.Matthew and the group are soon led by the deranged Kearney into a world of nihilistic violence, falling into shocking acts of transgression that will irrevocably change their lives.