The Runway (2010)

The citizens of Ireland's County Cork come to the aid of a South American pilot who has crash landed in their town.

Director:

Ian Power

Writer:

Ian Power

Stars:

Demián Bichir, Kerry Condon, James Cosmo

5 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Demián Bichir	...	Ernesto Cordoba (as Demian Bichir)
Kerry Condon	...	Grace Thomas
James Cosmo	...	Sutherland
Jamie Kierans	...	Paco Thomas
John Carpenter	...	Frogs Connors (as John Carpenter Jr.)
Donncha Crowley	...	Tommy Carmody
Pat Laffan	...	Manus
Bruno Bichir	...	Francisco De Caldus
Mark Doherty	...	Eddie
John Kavanagh	...	Seamus
Aidan O'Hare	...	Martin
Jean-François Wolff	...	Joe
David Pearse	...	Frog's Da
John Molloy	...	Cathal
Caroline Power	...	Laura Kelly

Storyline

The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. It is the story of Paco, a young boy without a father who adopts the pilot Ernesto and convinces the town to fix his plane. But then to reunite Paco with his friend whose family are travelers and whose business is laying tarmac, Ernesto convinced the town to build a runway to get him home.

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Plot Keywords:

runway | pilot | ireland | pirate radio station | friendship | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-14

Did You Know?

Trivia

Demián Bichir's entire dialogue is in Spanish and not dubbed into English. It is subtitled for the audience. For the Irish villagers in the film who don't speak Spanish it is translated by Paco.

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Goofs

Demián Bichír gives a driving lesson to Jamie Kierans in a left hand drive Ford Fiesta (which they hardly had in Ireland in 1983) and the same car 'miraculously' turns into a right hand one in a later scene when Bichír collects Kerry Condon for a date.

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Quotes

Tommy Carmody: This, ladies and gentlemen, is the pilot of the vehicle. To be perfectly honest, we are not certain of his name yet. We're also not certain precisely *what* he is we think he's a form of Colombian, or possibly Mexican.

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Crazy Credits

The opening credits are preceded by a black screen with very small white text reading "Kind of inspired by a true story...".

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Connections

Features Battle of the Planets: Attack of the Space Terrapin (1978)

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Soundtracks

Electric Co
Performed by U2
Courtesy of Mercury Records (London) Ltd
Under licence from Universal Music Operations Ltd
Written by Adam Clayton, The Edge (as David Evans), Larry Mullen Jr. (as Larry Mullen), Bono (as Paul Hewson)
Courtesy of Blue Mountain Music (UK) and Mother Music (Eire)

User Reviews

Refreshing and adorable story of different cultures, communucation and life in a small village in Ireland.

A wonderful little Irish film. Not to be missed. Well acted and a witty script. Not a single digitally enhanced scene and no shot is fired. Amazing.

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

Ireland Luxembourg

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

10 June 2011 (Ireland)

Also Known As:

The Runway

Filming Locations:

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Box Office

Budget:

$4,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$187,089

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fastnet Films, Film i Väst, Lucil Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Color:

Color