Forgotten Irish movies.

odyssey06 · 22-10-2024 08:15AM

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Big fan of that movie, gets the odd repeat late night on RTE iirc

Say Your Number · 23-10-2024 05:30AM

Pete's Meteor.

Was shown after the Late Late a few weeks ago, had never heard of it before.

It had Brenda Fricker and Mike Myers, Myers Irish accent is decent enough, film is a pile of sh1te, after Googling apparently Myers had it killed, which probably explains why I hadn't heard of it.

Myers is a drug dealer, his friends were a couple who died of an overdose, they had three bratty children who are looked after by their grandmother (Fricker) a meteor lands in their garden and a scientist comes and takes it away the children hate him and want it back, it's all over the place and is pretty turgid and boring.

It's on YouTube, if anyone feels like torturing themselves.

https://youtu.be/5Rh-rmZNMyE?si=mQ1ir-ehLE85Hz7Y

brokenbad · 23-10-2024 08:57AM

The Lilac Bus (1990)

Movie adaptation of the Maeve Binchy book

Quirky, nostalgic movie.

23-10-2024 10:03AM

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yes, very enjoyable

Picked up this a few years ago https://amzn.eu/d/3tNdiTF

Hangdogroad · 23-10-2024 10:33AM

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I mentioned this earlier in the thread but I think I was mistaking it for something else as I've never seen it. I think I might have had it confused with the Boy From Mercury. Vaguely remember reading about it when it came out.

Sgt Hartman · 23-10-2024 10:59AM

Pavee Lackeen (The Traveller Girl) I’ve been trying to find it online to stream I’ve had no luck so far.

jamieon · 23-10-2024 02:30PM

The boys and girls of Co. Clare. Andrea Corr was in it I believe

Sgt Hartman · 23-10-2024 05:38PM

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I remember that, it was awful. Colm Meaney, Bernard Hill and Patrick Bergin also co-starred. Eamonn Owens had a role as a village gombeen in it also. He seems to have gotten typecast in those roles after his appearance in The Butcher Boy.

23-10-2024 10:38PM

Maybe said already but hunger strike film 'Some Mother's Son'. Also 'About Adam' with Stuart Townsend and Kate Hudson.

PGE1970 · 24-10-2024 02:33PM

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Awful rubbish. It was released around the time of Waking Ned and When Brendan Met Trudy.

brokenbad · 24-10-2024 03:51PM

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Useless Fact: Andrea Corr started a relationship with actor Shaun Evans who also starred in that movie

brokenbad · 24-10-2024 03:56PM

The most Fertile man in Ireland (2000)

James Nesbitt stars in this absolute waste of 90 mins of your life….

Sgt Hartman · 24-10-2024 04:06PM

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Another dreadful movie, bereft of humour despite it supposedly being a comedy.

Kisses is another one that seems to be totally forgotten. About a 12yo boy and girl from an unspecified northside Dublin suburb who run away together and wander around Dublin City. Stephen Rea has a cameo in it as Bob Dylan.

The Tiger’s Tail with Brendan Gleeson was pretty bad also. It was directed by John Boorman.

brokenbad · 25-10-2024 08:50AM

Night Train (1998)

John Hurt stars in this under appreciated thriller about a low level criminal who takes refuge in a Dublin B&B while on the run from a gangster whom he owes money.

Charlo30 · 25-10-2024 09:13AM

Sweety Barrett. Stars Brendan Gleeson in what was meant to be a gritty crime drama. But ended up being a bit of a mess

Hangdogroad · 25-10-2024 10:48AM

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Saw it in the cinema when it came out. Very confused film that came across like an attempt at crossing a gangster film with an Irish take on Sling Blade. Mawkish music and weak script. The stuff with the young boy particularly grated.

I could be reading too much into it but I think the makers were aiming for a vaguely dystopian setting, like some kind low rent Irish Mad Max. It came out in 1999 when the Celtic Tiger was taking off in a big way but all the cars in the film are second hand bangers and everyone looks like they're wearing hand me downs. The main villain, played by Liam Cunningham, has the laughable name of Mannix Bone.

Its mainly of interest for for starring several Irish and British actors who went on to bigger things, including Cillian Murphy and Andrew Scott in tiny parts.

Charlo30 · 25-10-2024 10:53AM

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I can vaguely remember Cillian Murphy. But I've no recollection Andrew Scott. It must have been a blink and you've missed him part.

claw14 · 25-10-2024 11:00AM

I don't think this was was mentioned yet. Short film made just outside Galway

There's a Hole in the Ozone Layer Just Above Clonboo.

There's a Hole in the Ozone Layer Just Above Clonboo on Vimeo

brokenbad · 25-10-2024 11:03AM

Six Shooter (2004)

Short film directed by Martin McDonagh and starring Brendan Gleeson as a recently bereaved man who encounters a mourning couple and a psychopath on a train.

Hangdogroad · 25-10-2024 11:19AM

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They both played barmen in the pub.

Capt'n Midnight · 25-10-2024 10:24PM

Another Shore (1948) in which a civil servant plans to go to Rarotonga. Lots of old Dublin in it.

10000maniacs · 25-10-2024 10:51PM

The Watchers.

Saw it six months ago and have forgotten it already.

Dakota Fanning, you are better than that. Why Oh Why?

10000maniacs · 25-10-2024 10:55PM

The Running Man 1963.

Great film directed by Carol Reed of "The Third Man" fame.

Half the film is shot in Ireland and the other half in Spain.

Hangdogroad · 26-10-2024 07:00AM

A few more Irish short films from the 90s/00s.

Last Mango In Dublin. A not particularly funny comedy. Remember it being shown before a main feature in the cinema.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219870/

Sunburn, not to be confused with the Cillian Murphy film of the same name.

https://youtu.be/4U4yrsxbge0?si=KS66TeM7YljG4UNJ

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom. A gem.

https://youtu.be/JqYtG9BNhfM?si=ir8d3pleEtR5HWud

Hangdogroad · 26-10-2024 07:04AM

Another short that did the festival circuit and I remember turning up on Network 2. Lipservice (1998).

https://youtu.be/yucPvqFgN8M?si=0MGz2TJP8gw7khs2

Pretzill · 26-10-2024 08:27AM

Posting this after getting about halfway through the thread so sorry if they have been repeated;

I did extra work in the 90s and these three films seemed to disappear fast

An Awfully Big Adventure (Alan Rickman)

Sweeney Todd ( Ben Kingsley)

The Old Curiosity Shop (Peter Ustinov)

I have fond memories of the Old Curiosty Shop - filmed over a warm summer

odyssey06 · 26-10-2024 09:07AM

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That won an Oscar actually in 2004 for best live action short, that's how it came onto my radar. Would have made a nice little DVD extra back in the day.