Has a teenager ever had it this rough, even in Ireland? Dead mother, cold father, pregnant girlfriend, dead best friend. Geez, he even gets tarred and feathered. Fortunately, the few comic touches (like Keeslar's blessing a pig by saying "oink" backwards) are enough to make this rise above your usual Irish-as-downtrodden-victims fare and into the realm of watchability, though the melodrama eventually gets as thick as a pint of Guinness.