Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Sean Hughes | ... | Dan Madigan | |
Elliott Gould | ... | Dr. Goldstein | |
Daragh O'Malley | ... | Father Rudden | |
John Lynch | ... | O'Brien | |
Griff Rhys Jones | ... | Col. Stokes | |
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 |
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>
At last Puckoon has been made into a wonderful, mesmerizing film. This is a film that every Milligan fan will want to see many times, if just to catch everything that happens in each scene. The script has cleverly constructed in layers, the surface being the fast paced comedy and the deeper layers showing what happens to ordinary people, like the villagers of Puckoon, when their country is suddenly and arbitrarily divided