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Director:
Writers:
Dermot Bolger (writer)
Sue Clayton (writer)
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Release Date:
17 March 2000 (USA) more
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Plot:
Finbar and Danny are close childhood friends who live in a depressing neighbourhood in an Irish town... more | add synopsis
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Another badly made British film, not set in Britain. more (14 total)

Cast

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Luke Griffin ... Danny Quinn
Reiska Laine ... Himself (Pedro's Heavy Gentlemen)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... Finbar Flynn

Sean Lawlor ... Michael Flynn
Chris Meehan ... Roscommon Cowboy
Toner Quinn ... Roscommon Cowboy
Phil Calley ... Roscommon Cowboy
Fran McPhail ... Roscommon Cowbow
Pete Cummins ... Roscommon Cowboy
Pat Henry ... Roscommon Cowboy
Gerard Cullen ... Roscommon Cowboy
Jake Williams ... Young Finbar
Robert Hickey ... Young Danny
Eleanor Methven ... Pat Flynn
Marie Mullen ... Ellen Quinn
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
När Finbar försvann (Sweden)
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Runtime:
120 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Finbar Flynn: [about Danny's mom singing downstairs to his father's record] Would you listen to that. more
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Hiljainen kylätie more

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1 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Another badly made British film, not set in Britain., 22 December 1999
Author: Joe-290

The film begins off in North Dublin and the badness of the movie begins to set in when the script tries to portray what young people are like in this part of Dublin. Not very close at all.

Then Finbar, the accent seems to be muddled. Changing from Dublin accent to the actors actual Cork accent to the made up film Irish accent. The script is bad and so are the directions with a story line so unrealistic and boreing about a boy who disapears from his home and ends up in Sweden where his friend goes to find him. His friend, Danny travels around Sweden in search and as the script is not worth listening to , the movie turns into a travel guide or geographic film shows the scenery of Sweden.

Only 2 good things appear in the film. The girls of Sweden which have to be extremly beautiful and the aerial photogrpahy showing the beauty of Sweden towards the end.

A British made film not set in Britain. The idea of Ireland and Sweden in the same film feels like a James Bond movie especially when Danny is going in search of Finbarr and with all the snow in the movie I was expecting one of them to jump off a cliff with ski's and shoot some people. Unfortunately that didnt happen but I got close when I saw the snow-mobiles.

Not a tremendous film but not extremely bad either. Worth a watch and as I truely have to say. A lot better than Star Wars as it hints a touch of film art in it.

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