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10 January 2008 (USA)
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A group of men reunite for a friend's funeral. full summary | full synopsis
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7 wins
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9 nominations
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a sad, gorgeous film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Colm Meaney | ... | Joe Mullan |
 | Donal O'Kelly | ... | Jap Kavanagh |
| Brendan Conroy | ... | Git Miller |
| Donncha Crowley | ... | Shay Mulligan |
| Barry Barnes | ... | Máirtín Rogers |
| Seán Ó Tarpaigh | ... | Jackie Flaherty |
| Peadar O'Treasaigh | ... | Micil Flaherty |
 | Seán T. Ó Meallaigh | ... | Joe Mullan Jnr. |
 | Christopher Greene | ... | Jap Jnr. |
| Graham Feeley | ... | Git Jnr. |
| Ronan Moloney | ... | Jackie Jnr. |
| Simon Drislane | ... | Shay Jnr. |
| Darragh O'Brien | ... | Máirtín Jnr. |
| Gabrielle Reidy | ... | Maggie |
| Cathy Murphy | ... | Bridie |
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Canada:88 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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Ireland's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).
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Followed by Kings: From the Bogside to the Bright Lights (2008) (TV)
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A beautifully-made film, "Kings" is one of the best movies of this year. The hand-held camera gives it an intimacy too often absent in close-up cinematic portraiture, and allows the viewer a real look at the shocking sadness of the lives of its subjects. Of a group of five friends who leave the west of Ireland in their teens in the late 1970s, Jackie is the first to die. Herein begins a long journey into oblivion for his four friends, all of them living lives very different from what was envisaged at the start of their English odyssey. What "Kings" does, more than anything, is take a long look at the generations of lost Irish in London, those who left Ireland on the boat to work on the building sites and to clean houses, and the sad waste of the loss of potential to the devils of booze. The films stays away from nostaglia or sentiment, and in doing so it creates for the viewer a real picture of how it was for all the thousands of immigrants, most of whom never saw home again.