Apple Magazine - USA - Issue 444 (2020-05-01)

(Antfer) #1

Extra Ordinary


Rose Dooley (Maeve Higgins) is a sweet and
lonely driving instructor in rural Ireland,
who has a love/hate relationship with her
supernatural abilities. But when washed-up
rock star Christian Winter (Will Forte) puts a
spell on a local teenager – making her levitate



  • her terrified father, Martin Martin (Barry
    Ward), desperately asks Rose to help save
    his daughter.


FIVE FACTS:



  1. Extra Ordinary is an Irish horror comedy
    film written and directed by Mike Ahern and
    Enda Loughman.

  2. Other members of the cast include Claudia
    O’Doherty, Jamie Beamish, Terri Chandler,
    Risteárd Cooper and Emma Coleman.

  3. The film premiered at South by
    Southwest in Austin, Texas in March 2019.

  4. Forte’s character, Christian Winter, was
    inspired by a raft of celebrities who moved
    to Ireland in the ‘80s and ‘90s to avoid tax.

  5. Writing for Variety, Dennis Harvey
    described Extra Ordinary as “a kind of tea-
    cosy Ghostbusters that’s consistently
    funny in a pleasingly off-kilter way.”

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