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"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?" sang the desperately anxious; mid - dle - aged J. Alfred Prufrock in T. S. Eliot's famous poem. The lead character in Eat the Peach, a delicious comedy from Ireland directed by Peter Ormrod, shares none of Prufrock 's crippling in - hibitions . While idly watching Roustabout, an Elvis Presley movie featuring a wall of death stunt, a crazy whim creeps into Vinnie's mind : why not build and ride your own wall of death? So he lays waste his farm land, works as a driver in "commodity relocation" (that is, smug - gling ) to pay for wood, tena - ciously constructs the circular edifice, and rides up the side

before family, friends , and local dignitaries. In meta - phorical terms, he eats the peach. This story of a mental obsession obstinately pushed out into concrete reality could easily have crumbled into cloying whimsy. But Ormrod and his producer/co-writer John Kelleher (both experi - enced in television) success - fully root the film's eccentricities in the hard facts of modern life in Ireland's neglected corners: poverty, unemployment, the drudgery of peat farming, local political