Projects matching: Paddy Breathnach

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The medical students at Forthaven General Hospital study hard and party harder, until a cruel prank accidently puts the facility's creepy janitor into a deep coma. But when one responsible student (Arielle Kebbel of The Uninvited and The Grudge 2) tries to revive the degenerate loner with an experimental injection, she instead sends his brainwaves berserk. Will a sudden spree of side kicks now claim the guilty one-by-one, or has the ultimate out-of-body experience ushered in a bloodbath of brutal revenge?

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When trainee doctor Catherine Thomas administers an untested cocktail of drugs to a critical coma victim, the patient is jolted into a startling 'out-of-body' state, enabling him to take revenge on the careless medics who left him in this condition. As the comatose patient's murderous supernatural powers increase, Catherine is running out of time and allies. Worse still, she has become the latest target of his unshakeable thirst for vengeance.

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A group of American teens go to rural Ireland in search of notoriously potent magic mushrooms. But legend has it that the area is haunted by the depraved ghosts of monks. After eating the mushrooms, the teenagers start to see terrifying visions and one of them turns up horrifically mutilated. Events spiral out of control as the friends are picked off one by one – but is this gruesome reality or a terrible hallucination?

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When Belfast boys Mo Chara and his friends Scud Murphy and Cerebral Palsy come into a young greyhound as payment for a favour done for hooky bookie J.P. McCallion, it's a dream come true. Owning their own dog is surely going to end a run of bad luck that's lasted since they placed their very first bets. But Cerebus is a greyhound with a mind of his own and until they have worked out the not-so-complex doggy psychology behind what makes him run, they're mired in a losing streak that's a mile wide. Deep in debt to the ruthless McCallion, sworn enemies of gypsies they have ripped off, for the boys everything's at stake at the most important event in the dog-racing calendar - the Clonmel meet - if only they and c]Cerbeus can get there in one piece.   A comedy of underdogs coming good without the aid of wisdom, guile or any natural or unnatural advantage whatsoever, proving that if you're not smart enough to recognise when you're beaten, you might actually end up winning.

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The mayor of Keighley has big plans. He triumphantly announces to the media that the National Hairdressing Championships are coming to the town. Local hairdresser Phil was once the golden boy of the competition circuit - until his wife, Shelley, left him and their son Brian to move in with her lover, Sandra. Phil's old adversary, Ray, arrives in Keighley to compete, with his daughter Christina as his model. As preparations get under way, the glamour and the heartache, the scheming and the cheating of competition hairdressing stirs up all the old rivalries, with even more at stake than the coveted Silver Scissors.

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Award-winning playwright Conor McPherson steps behind the camera for the first time with Saltwater, a tale of ordinary folk in extraordinary circumstances. In an out-of-season coastal town in Ireland, the local chippie is on the verge of going under. Ever since his mother's death, Frank (Peter McDonald) has been helping his father (Brian Cox) hold the fort. But dad is in hock to the local bookie and loan shark (Brendan Gleeson) so Frank takes matters into his own hands and robs the bookie. Needless to say, things don't quite go as planned. Inspired by a dream McPherson had several years ago, the film began as a stage play called This Lime Tree Bower, which took the form of a series of monologues from the three main characters: Frank, his younger brother Joe, who feels his mother's absence the most, and Ray, a university tutor who is in love with the brothers' older sister. McPherson then teamed up with producer Robert Walpole, who, along with his directing partner Paddy Breathnach, had turned his first screenplay, I Went Down, into an award-winning hit film. Saltwater went into production just as McPherson's acclaimed play The Weir was earning raves on Broadway in New York. The film world-premiered in the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival in February where audience reaction was favourable. It had its Irish premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh in July and will open in Ireland through Buena Vista in September.