Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Alex Murphy | ... | Conor MacSweeney | |
Chris Walley | ... | Jock Murphy | |
Hilary Rose | ... | Mairead MacSweeney / Female News Anchor | |
Dominic MacHale | ... | Sergeant Healy | |
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P.J. Gallagher | ... | Ray the Drug Dealer |
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Shane Casey | ... | Billy Murphy |
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Pascal Scott | ... | Farmer |
Ciaran Bermingham | ... | Superintendent Flynn | |
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Michael Sands | ... | Jock's Dad / News Reporter |
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Cora Fenton | ... | Jock's Mother |
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Stephen O'Connor | ... | Angry Dad |
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Fionula Linehan | ... | DIY Cashier |
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Wesley O'Duinn | ... | Fish Man |
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Antoinette Hilliard | ... | Fish Head Woman |
Tommy Harris | ... | Big Mouth (as Thomas Harris) |
Inspired by the true story of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young Offenders is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor and Jock, two inner-city teenagers from Cork who dress the same, act the same, and even have the same bum-fluff mustaches. Jock is a legendary bike thief who plays a daily game of cat-and-mouse with the bike-theft-obsessed Garda Sergeant Healy. When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork and 61 bales of cocaine, each worth 7 million euro, are seized, word gets out that there is a bale missing. The boys steal two bikes and go on a road trip hoping to find a missing bale which they can sell so as to escape their troubled home lives....But Sergeant Healy is in hot pursuit.
I expected some comedy, but this was hilarious fun. There is pace and action not dissimilar from Guy Ritchie movies. It reminded me of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels on a much lighter tone and probably twice as funny.
I absolutely loved the stylised but down to earth storytelling, and the narrative. I hope the director/writer come up with more stylised comedy like this. It is not filled with gratuitous violence. It is definitely recommended viewing.
I have given it an enthusiastic 9 because I have not laughed so much in a while. It would have still been a 7 if I laughed 50% less!!