A new student arrives at the school, Conor, a star rugby player who is assigned to be Ned's roommate. He seems to be the only student at the school who does not enjoy rugby. The film is set at the fictional Wood Hill College, an elite, rugby-obsessed, all-boys boarding school in Ireland modelled on Castleknock College and Blackrock College, and is seen through the eyes of Ned, an ostracised student at the school. Handsome Devil received critical acclaim, winning the award for Best Irish Feature of 2017 from the Dublin Film Critics' Circle four nominations at the 2018 Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) Awards, including Best Feature Film and the Best Single Drama Award at the annual Celtic Media Festival in 2018. The film features themes of homosexuality, while examining hypocrisy and snobbery in the Irish private school system. The two form an unlikely friendship until it is tested by those around them.
It centres around Ned ( Fionn O'Shea), an ostracised teenager at an elite, rugby-obsessed, all-boys boarding school in Ireland, whose new roommate Conor ( Nicholas Galitzine) is the school's new rugby star-player. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Handsome Devil is a 2016 Irish comedy-drama film directed by John Butler.
