
So, Martin turns to Rose, offering a meet-cute that is awkward yet adorable, involving sweetness, subterfuge, and sandwiches. But his teen daughter Sarah (Emma Coleman) has threatened to move out if her dead mom doesn’t move on. Meek and mourning, Martin isn’t in a rush to bid farewell to his menacing missus. The poor widower has bruises from these ghostly pummelings that can be triggered by choosing a junk food snack or rejecting the shirt she’s laid out for him. That is until she gets a call from the flustered but warm Martin Martin (Barry Ward), who is haunted by the pesky poltergeist of his abusive dead wife. But once she’s kicked off her sweatpants and settled on a sad dinner of yogurt, Rose is done for the night. There, she gets nightly calls from neighbors who remember her girlhood as a child prodigy of the paranormal. But all that changes when a charming widower and an eccentric American come into her life.ĭirected by Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman, Extra Ordinary follows Rose on a life-changing adventure in a spirit-ridden, rural Irish town. Fearful of her powers-and getting close to anyone-she’s chosen a career as a driving school instructor, trying to leave the spirits behind her.


This is the vexation of Extra Ordinary’s heroine, Rose Dooley (Maeve Higgins), a medium who’s been ignoring her gift of ghost-gab since an unfortunate incident involving her late father. But by the time donuts are being chucked across the room and your teen daughter is floating three feet above her bed, it’s hard to ignore the supernatural forces around you. The trashbin lid that flaps open on its own.
