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Marty wrote on 08/11/2011:

Good story. Great acting. Other than the fact that every male in the movie calls Nick Thurston "Faggot" there is ZERO gay content.

Amos Lassen wrote on 07/08/2011:

Bay Ridge, Brooklyn is an Irish neighborhood and Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is 18 years old who is trying to eke out a living and to find himself. Set in 1975, Brian gravitates towards the art world which he hopes will be his salvation. In the meantime he has been committing petty crimes with his brother, Danny (Geoff Wigdor), his idol and mentor. Brian does not want to be a criminal but he wants cash so that he will not be like his lazy friends. What they all want is acceptance and jobs with the Civil Service. Todd is going off to college but Brian is an artist with a great deal of talent. He feels that his neighborhood hinders his chances of getting ahead. He really would like to go to college to perfect his technique.
. His friends have no interest or aptitude for anything beyond a high-school diploma and nobody understands Brian’s dream of going to college to Carnegie-Mellon to study art, especially not his mother (Karen Allen) or his abusive and alcoholic longshoreman father Paddy (Stephen Lang), who is brutal toward Danny and this is what led Danny to follow a life of crime, and Brian is on the way to becoming his accomplice. But Brian has a conscience and he turns the basement room under the bagel shop in his parents’ building into a secret art studio, where he creates impressionistic charcoal drawings and watercolor sketches of the city around him.
Brian also works in a broken-down movie house where his boss, Whitey (Peter Riegert), is in debt to the mob. Suddenly, they get an idea and Whitey contacts the manager of the Rolling Stones and talks him into booking the rock group for a secret one-night-only concert prior to an appearance at Madison Square Garden. Even with nothing but word-of-mouth publicity, the event sells out and becomes the biggest thing that ever happened in Bay Ridge. The revenue from the Rolling Stones tickets will not only save Whitey’s life and his bankrupt theater, but Brian’s share of the profits might get him out of his hopeless blue-collar Brooklyn despair forever. However, Brian knows that his brother is planning a robbery during the show to steal the box-office proceeds. He is torn between his loyalty to Whitey, his love for Danny and his own sense of morality, Brian turns to his new girlfriend, Shauna (Leslie Murphy), for help. Before any choice is made, the tables turn violently and lives are changed forever.
“White Irish Drinkers” is a gritty and moving film about finding the courage to get out of a destructive life and writer-director John Gray, gives us a movie you will not soon forget.