Furthermore, she's hampered by her parents' requirement that she grab an early bus home every night. But does that preclude a love relationship? He also appears to have eyes for Nan, whom he invites to dance before Benny at a soiree. He takes an instant like to Benny, he tells her, because he can tell her things. Her romantic hopes are beset with problems, however. She becomes increasingly obsessed with this blue-eyed wonder who plays a mean game of rugby and sets girls' hearts to racing. When Nan (who knows her share of students thanks to her adventurous high school days) introduces Benny to winsome student Jack Foley (Chris O'Donnell), her life acquires new meaning.
Attending the Dublin college with her are high school friends Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe) and Nan (Saffron Burrows). By night, she's back home with the folks. By day, Benny escapes the repressions of her rural home town for college in Dublin. As Benny (short for Bernadette), a big-boned, headstrong lass who strains winningly against the restrictions of family, religion and just plain growing up, she's a comedic breath of fresh air, easily the best thing about the movie.
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS DRIVER
There's something a little too hackneyed about everything, as boyfriends push their dates for premarital sex, priests warn about temptation and fathers frown at the dinner table.īut newcomer Minnie Driver cuts an engaging swath through these shopworn situations. "Circle of Friends," in which three Irish girlfriends grapple with purity, womanhood, loyalty and true love in Catholic Ireland, hardly breaks new ground.
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