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| Sean Hughes | ... | Dan Madigan | |
| Elliott Gould | ... | Dr. Goldstein | |
| Daragh O'Malley | ... | Father Rudden | |
| John Lynch | ... | O'Brien | |
| Griff Rhys Jones | ... | Col. Stokes | |
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Nickolas Grace | ... | Foggerty |
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B.J. Hogg | ... | Rafferty |
| David Kelly | ... | O'Toole | |
| Milo O'Shea | ... | Sgt. McGillikuddie | |
| Freddie Jones | ... | Sir John Meredith | |
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Richard Rickings | ... | Alex Walker |
| Richard Attenborough | ... | Writer-Director | |
| Marc Sinden | ... | The surveyor | |
| Frankie McCafferty | ... | Lenny | |
| Conor Mullen | ... | Shamus | |
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Puckoon is a wee Irish village that gets caught up in an argument about where the border separating Northern Ireland from Ireland should be. Keen to get the matter sorted before the pubs close, a random borderline is wrestled on the map of the Emerald Isle and Puckoon gets divided as well, literally. As the barbed wire fences and Army checkpoints go up overnight, suddenly people cannot get to their outhouses or walk from one side of the street to the other. It has some advantages, everyone squeezes into the tiniest corner of the pub because it is in Northern Ireland territory where the beer is cheaper, but worst of all, is the church and its graveyard. Now the newly deceased need a valid passport, renewable every year, if they want to be buried "across the border". A plan is hatched to return the newly dead back to Ireland. At the same time, a plan is hatched to smuggle explosives in coffins to Northern Ireland with, as they say, hilarious results. Written by <jbartlett2000@hotmail;com>
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4 April 2003 (Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
Határvillongások See more »Company Credits
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Bórd Scannán na hÉireann, Distinguished Features, Insight Ventures Limited See more »
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Writer-Director: Legs.
Dan Madigan: Legs? Legs? Whose legs?
Writer-Director: Your legs.
Dan Madigan: Mine? Did you write these legs?
Writer-Director: I did, yes.
Dan Madigan: Well I don't like them. I don't like them at all. I could have writed better legs meself. Did you write your legs?
Writer-Director: Uh, no.
Dan Madigan: Ah, so you got somebody else to write your legs. Somebody who's good at leg writing. It's a diabolical liberty letting loose some untrained leg writer on an unsuspecting human being like me!
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This movie takes place in Puckoon, County Sligo, Ireland in 1924. See more »Quotes
Dan Madigan: Good God, what are these?Writer-Director: Legs.
Dan Madigan: Legs? Legs? Whose legs?
Writer-Director: Your legs.
Dan Madigan: Mine? Did you write these legs?
Writer-Director: I did, yes.
Dan Madigan: Well I don't like them. I don't like them at all. I could have writed better legs meself. Did you write your legs?
Writer-Director: Uh, no.
Dan Madigan: Ah, so you got somebody else to write your legs. Somebody who's good at leg writing. It's a diabolical liberty letting loose some untrained leg writer on an unsuspecting human being like me!
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This is a fantastic comedy and a 'must see' for fans of Milligan humour and Pythonesque comedy. The screenplay has adapted the story as close to Milligan's novel as can be, keeping all the characters and humour as Spike portrayed them. This is the comedy film of the century.