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  • 17 Aug 17

Watch: First-look trailer released for upcoming Irish film The Drummer And The Keeper

Watch: First-look trailer released for upcoming Irish film <i>The Drummer And The Keeper</i>
Ryan Platts
Ryan Platts

The film deals with themes of difference, acceptance, and friendship through adversity.

A first-look trailer for new Irish film The Drummer And The Keeper has been released.

The film's cast, including Peter Coonan and Aoibhinn McGinnity, features actors who have appeared in offerings like Jadotville, What Richard Did, Love/Hate, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Moone Boy.

Press releases for the film describe it as centreing around the unlikely friendship that grows between "Gabriel, a reckless young drummer with bipolar disorder, who revels in rejecting society’s rules and Christopher, a 17 year old with Asperger’s Syndrome, who yearns to fit in."

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