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Storyline
Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
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The FBI are about to discover that things work a little different around here.
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Rated R for pervasive language, some violence, drug material and sexual content
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Release Date:
7 July 2011 (Ireland)
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Box Office
Budget:
$6,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend USA:
$76,834,
31 July 2011, Limited Release
Gross USA:
$5,359,774, 5 February 2012
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Trivia
The boat wanted by the police and containing the drugs is called the "Annabel Lee", ostensibly named for the poem written in 1849 by Edgan Allan Poe.
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Goofs
The Irish Folk Band in the "Hooker Bar" scene plays a tune which is listed in the credits as "The Star of the County Down". This information is incorrect, though.
The tune itself got published in 1726 by Alexander Stuart in the book "Music for Allan Ramsay's Collection of Scots Songs" and was named "Gilderoy", only later (end of 19th century) did Cathal Mac Garvey write the lyrics for "The Star of the County Down", but other songs have been written to the tune also: "My Love Nell", "Divers and Lazarus", "The Murder of Maria Martin", "Mary from Blackwater Side", "When first I left old Ireland" all used the same melody.
Since the song was performed as an instrumental only, it is definitely wrong to credit it as "The Star of the County Down".
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first lines]
Sergeant Gerry Boyle:
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red car speeds past his speed trap, tires screech, car crashes]
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finds drugs in the pocket of dead teen]
I don't think your mammy would be too pleased about that now.
Sergeant Gerry Boyle:
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walks aside and swallows one of the pills]
What a beautiful fuckin' day.
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The Trip to Durrow
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User Reviews
I must take issue with the bobbowhite review.
As a citizen of Ireland I can safely say that this film is easy to understand and accents should not be adjusted just so that USA folk can follow.
If an English MP can find the film enjoyable and recommend it to her 35,000+ twitter followers, then no-one should complain.
The scenery is superb.
The characters just right for the West of Ireland as I remember it.
The whole scope of the current Irish populace is contained in the film and age old attitudes subtly dealt with.