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Waking Ned is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Kirk Jones (réalisateur britannique) released in USA on 8 january 1999 with Ian Bannen
Waking Ned (1998)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 8 january 1999
Length 1h31
Directed by Kirk Jones (réalisateur britannique)
OriginUnited-kingdom
Rating72%
Waking Ned (titled Waking Ned Devine in North America) is a 1998 comedy film by English writer and director Kirk Jones. It stars Ian Bannen, David Kelly, and Fionnula Flanagan. Kelly was nominated for a Screen Actors' Guild award for his role as Michael O'Sullivan. The film is set in Ireland, but was filmed on location in the Isle of Man. It was produced by Canal+ and the British studio Tomboy Films and distributed by the American company Fox Searchlight Pictures.
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When word reaches Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) and Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly), two elderly best friends, that someone in their tiny Irish village of 52 people in Tulaigh Mhór (Tullymore) has won the Irish National Lottery's Lotto game, they, along with Jackie's wife Annie (Fionnula Flanagan), plot to discover the identity of the winner. They obtain a list of lottery customers from Mrs. Kennedy (Maura O'Malley) at the post office, and invite the potential winners to a chicken dinner, where they attempt to get the winner to reveal his or herself. After everyone has left and they are no closer to an answer, Annie realizes that one person did not come to the dinner, so Jackie pays a late-night visit to the only absentee: the reclusive Ned Devine (Jimmy Keogh). He finds Ned in his home in front of the TV, still holding the ticket in his hand, a smile on his face and dead from shock. That same night, Jackie has a dream that the deceased Ned wants to share the winnings with his friends, as he has no family to claim the ticket. Jackie wakes up after the dream, and before dawn, he and Michael return to Ned's house to gather Ned's personal information so they can claim the winnings for themselves.Actors
Ian Bannen
(Jackie O'Shea)
David Kelly
(Michael O'Sullivan)
Fionnula Flanagan
(Annie O'Shea)
Susan Lynch
(Maggie O'Toole)
James Nesbitt
(Pig Finn)
Fintan McKeown
(Pat Mulligan)
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