Intermission is a 2003 Irish black comedy crime film directed by John Crowley and written by Mark O'Rowe.

It quickly moves to John (Cillian Murphy) and Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald), a recently-separated young couple.

Lehiff's nemesis, Garda Detective Jerry Lynch (Colm Meaney), presents himself as a saviour whose main mission is to fight the "scumbags" on Dublin's streets.

He enlists the help of Ben Campion (Tomás Ó Súilleabháin), an ambitious film-maker and the bane of his "go-softer" boss, who considers Lynch too nasty a subject to be shown on a mainstream "docusoap" series on Irish television.

Just as the plan seems to be working out, everything goes wrong, as Sam is assaulted by his enraged wife Noeleen on the street and the Gardaí are forced to intervene.

Later, Mick loses his job after being wrongfully blamed for the crash; he becomes obsessed with taking revenge on the boy who caused it.

[4][5] It earned $896,993 at the North American domestic box office and $3,959,305 internationally, for a worldwide total of $4,856,298, against a production budget of $5 million.

"[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.