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Mike Myers as an Irish drug dealer?!

  • 20-12-2015 4:39pm
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    While watching an old interview with Mike Myers on YouTube, I stumbled across him mentioning a film called Pete's Meteor, which he had filmed in Ireland.

    In it, he plays a drug dealer from Dublin. One of the other stars of the film is Brenda Fricker.

    Am I alone in having never even heard of this film before?

    The film can't have been marketed very well.

    You had an Oscar-winning Irish actress, and an actor who had starred in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery the year before, which had made millions.

    Has anyone actually seen it? From this clip, it sounds as though Myers did a quite convincing accent.



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  • #2
    Into The Blue
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    Heard of it, but haven't seen it..


  • #3
    J Mysterio
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    Fascinating. Never hoid of it. Will watch.


  • #4
    ScottStorm
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    Never heard of it.


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    darkdubh
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    Remember reading something about it when it came out,never seen it.There were loads of Irish films like that released in the 90s that were seen by about five people and sunk without trace.


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    AnonoBoy
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    It reviewed terribly.

    The director went back to theatre after it as far as I can tell from IMDB.

    Wonder how they got Myers involved at all.


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    WHIP IT!
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    It reviewed terribly.

    The director went back to theatre after it as far as I can tell from IMDB.

    Wonder how they got Myers involved at all.

    Maybe he lost a bet with Brenda on the set of So I Married an Axe Murderer? :o


  • #8
    Heisenberg1
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    Decent accent from Mike there too.


  • #9
    FloatingVoter
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    Remember reading something about it when it came out,never seen it.There were loads of Irish films like that released in the 90s that were seen by about five people and sunk without trace.

    I did extra work on half of them. When Brendan Met Trudy, An Everlasting Piece, Agnes Brown (Brendan O' Carroll), The Sparrow Trap (oh look...Brendan again), Borstal Boy (Peter Sheridan attenpts direction) to name but several. Godawful wastes of celluloid that followed on the heels of My Left Foot, The Commitments and Michael Collins.
    How Shrek and yer wan out of Casualty got mixed up in one is probably drink or tax money related.


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    FloatingVoter wrote: »
    I did extra work on half of them. When Brendan Met Trudy, An Everlasting Piece, Agnes Brown (Brendan O' Carroll), The Sparrow Trap (oh look...Brendan again), Borstal Boy (Peter Sheridan attenpts direction) to name but several. Godawful wastes of celluloid that followed on the heels of My Left Foot, The Commitments and Michael Collins.
    How Shrek and yer wan out of Casualty got mixed up in one is probably drink or tax money related.

    I enjoyed When Brendan Met Trudy. It has been a while since I last saw it, though.

    An Everlasting Piece was far from the worst film about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, either.

    Mike Myers, though, is so high profile and globally famous, it seems strange an Irish film starring him could be so buried.


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