Emerald ire: the Black Donnellys presents a smart--if familiar--take on Irish guts and guilt.(TV)

New York | March 5, 2007| | Copyright

IF THE DONNELLYS were Corleones, Tommy would be Michael. Tommy (Jonathan Tucker) is the sensitive Donnelly, with so many complicated feelings that he actually goes to art school on a union scholarship. One of these feelings is love, for Jenny Reilly (Olivia Wilde) at the local diner, whose face he's forever sketching. Another feeling is guilt, for what happened to his older brother, Jimmy (Tom Guiry), back when they were kids in Hell's Kitchen. Being Irish, of course, means that guilt trumps love every time. And being black Irish--possibly part Gypsy, possibly part Basque, ...

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