Christopher Abbott, Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney
Barry Keoghan (Saltburn, The Banshees of Inisherin) and Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, HBO’s Girls) play familial rivals trapped by circumstance in Christopher Andrews’ blood-soaked drama.
The last son of a shepherding family, Michael (Abbott) lives with his ailing father Ray (Colm Meaney). When a simmering conflict with rival farmer Gary (Paul Ready) and his son Jack (Keoghan) escalates, powered by past traumas, a devastating chain of events puts both families on a collision course.
Set in a rural Ireland every bit as harsh and unyielding as the Old West, Bring Them Down is both a brutal vision of toxic masculinity and a taut and mournful lament about people unable to reach beyond themselves to break a generations-old cycle of harm. With a shifting perspective that constantly deepens our sense of the story, it boasts terrific and potentially awards-worthy turns from both Abbott and Keoghan.