Puckoon
Synopsis
It's 1924, and the Boundary Commission from Britain and Ireland is deciding on the new boundary line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
After months of haggling over every inch of territory, the commissioners are forced to finish the job by hand, after a bicycle accident destroys the surveyor's equipment.
With all the participants holding the pencil, and much pushing and shoving, the border finds its way down the middle of Puckoon, dividing house from outhouse, man from wife, pub from bar, church from cemetery. Our hero, Dan Madigan, wakes up from his indolence to find the beer cheaper on the wrong side of the pub, and a border patrol demanding passports. Puckoon will never be the same again. Something has to be done.
Details
- Year
- 2002
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 89 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
-
Terence Ryan
- Producer
- Rainer Mockert, Brooks Reilly
- Editor
- Dermot Diskin
- Screenwriter
- Terence Ryan
- Director of Photography
- Peter Hannan
- Composer
- Pol Brennan, Richard Hartley
- Principal cast
- Sean Hughes, Elliott Gould, Richard Attenborough, Griff Rhys Jones, David Kelly
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Y2K Film Production Ltd
c/o Beyond Films and Beyond DistributionSales Company
Beyond Films and Beyond Distribution
Contact: Stephen Kelliher22 Newman Street
London W1T 1PH
UK
T 00 44 (0)20 7636 9611
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