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PUCKOON (cert PG)

"Based on Spike Milligan's legendary comic masterpiece, which has sold over five million copies to date, Puckoon is a politically true, politically incorrect and profoundly funny tale.
 
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..."
 
(Synopsis www.britfilms.com)

Directed by
Terence Ryan
 
Writing credits
Spike Milligan (novel)
Terence Ryan (screenplay)
 
Produced by
Jamie Brown - Executive producer
Stephen Margolis - Co-executive producer
David McLoughlin - Co-producer
Kevin Menton - Co-executive producer
Rainer Mockert - Executive producer
Brooks Riley - Executive producer
Terence Ryan - Producer
Ken Tuohy - Producer
 
Original Music by
Pol Brennan
Richard Hartley
 
Cinematography by
Peter Hannan
 
Film Editing by
Dermot Diskin
 
Production Design by
John Bunker
 
Art Direction by
Gillian Devenney
 
Costume Design by
Hazel Webb-Crozier
 
Make-up Department
Pamela Smyth - Make-up department head
Kelly Tuohy - Key hair stylist
 
Sound Department
Jean-Raphaël Dedieu - Sound editor
Caoimhe Doyle - Foley artist
John Fitzgerald - Sound re-recording mixer
André Jacquemin - Sound designer
André Jacquemin - Sound
Mervyn Moore - Sound recordist
Gerard Roche - Adr mixer
Jon Stevenson - Supervising sound editor
 
Special Effects by
Dominic Tuohy - Special effects coordinator
 
Visual Effects by
Nick Bedford - Digital effects production assistant: Peerless Camera Co
John Paul Docherty - Visual effects supervisor
 
Stunts
Paul Burke - Stunt double
 
Production Companies
 
* Bórd Scannán na hÉireann
* Distinguished Features
* Insight Ventures Limited
* MBP (Germany)
* NatWest Ventures
* National Lottery
* Northern Ireland Film Commission
* VCL Communications GmbH
* Y2K Productions
 
Cast
Sean Hughes - Dan Madigan
Elliott Gould - Dr. Goldstein
Daragh O'Malley - Father Rudden
John Lynch - O'Brien
Griff Rhys Jones - Col. Stokes
Nickolas Grace - Foggerty
B.J. Hogg - Rafferty
David Kelly - O'Toole
Milo O'Shea - Sgt. McGillikuddie
Freddie Jones - Sir John Meredith
Richard Rickings - Alex Walker
Richard Attenborough - Writer-Director
Marc Sinden - Surveyor White
Frankie McCafferty - Lenny
Conor Mullen - Shamus
Margaret D'Arcy - Madam Tooney
Maureen Dow - Agnes Grope
Enda Fields - Officer in Court Martial
Patrick Fields - Captain in Court Martial
Anthony Finigan - Madigan's Dad
Laverym Gerard Ban - Sergeant Major
Stuart Gibson - Caesar Scout
Clifford Hadyn-Tovey - Retired Colonel
Muriel Hobson - Mrs. Doonan
Jenny Howe - Mrs. Croucher
Terry Keely - Mammy Scout
Trudie Kelly - Winfred Grope
Kevin McCartan - Scout
Kieran McCormick - Scout
Alan Mckee - Superc illious Offician
Jane Milligan - Mrs. Madigan
Mark Mulholland - George Devine
J.J. Murphy - Furg
Olivia Nash - Maudie O'Toole
Ruth Urquhart - Miss Murphy
Brenda Winter - Mrs. Eels
Peter Woodward - Major Martin
 
82 minutes
Ireland / UK / Germany 2002
 
Certificate PG
 
Puckoon was released in the UK by Guerilla Films