- Actors: Stephen Brennan, Eamon Morrissey, Catherine Byrne, Niall Toibin
- Directors: Peter Ormrod
- Classification: PG
- Studio: RCA Columbia Pictures
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000057P1V
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,677 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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This is a comedy film based on the times of the recent troubles and their effect on the livelihood of two likely lads from south of the Irish border. In order to fulfil their ambitions, they try their hand at smuggling (fuel, liquor, even pig squeals) and fall foul of both IRA sympathisers and the forces of law and order. Eventually, they retreat to the Bog of Allen, where they set about building a large wooden 'wall of death' stucture, with unforeseen consequences. The black comedy is a foretaste of that in the better-known "Waking Ned", and its style recalls the plays of Sean O'Casey of 80 years earlier vintage, but without plugging O'Casey's political and moral messages. Splendidly acted and filmed, and good for quite a few belly laughs as well as a different slant on Irish events of the 1970s and 1980s.
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This is a comedy film based on the times of the recent troubles and their effect on the livelihood of two likely lads from south of the Irish border. In order to fulfil their ambitions, they try their hand at smuggling (fuel, liquor, even pig squeals) and fall foul of both IRA sympathisers and the forces of law and order. Eventually, they retreat to the Bog of Allen, where they set about building a large wooden 'wall of death' stucture, with unforeseen consequences. The black comedy is a foretaste of that in the better-known "Waking Ned", and its style recalls the plays of Sean O'Casey of 80 years earlier vintage, but without plugging O'Casey's political and moral messages. Splendidly acted and filmed, and good for quite a few belly laughs as well as a different slant on Irish events of the 1970s and 1980s.
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