Movie: "Puckoon"
| Release Date: | Jan 2002 |
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| Genre: | Comedy |
| Runtime: | 82 min. |
| 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 (The surveyor) Frankie McCafferty (Lenny) Conor Mullen (Shamus) Margaret D'Arcy (Madam Tooney) Richard Dormer (Arthur Faddington) Maureen Dow (Agnes Grope) Ronnie Drew (Pearse) Enda Fields (Officer in court-martial) Patrick Fields (Captain in court-martial) Anthony Finigan (Madigan's dad) Stuart Gibson (Caesar Scout) Clifford Hadyn-Tovey (Retired colonel) Muriel Hobson (Mrs. Doonan) Jenny Howe (Mrs. Croucher) Christopher Jupe (Cpl. Worms) John Kavanagh (Haggerty) Sean Kearns (Theobald Dring) Terry Keely (Mammy Scout) John Keenan (Feely) Trudie Kelly (Winifred Grope) Gerard Ban Lavery (Sergeant Major) Charles Lawson (Nigel Ferguson) Paul Loughran (Farmer Murphy) Kevin McCartan (Scout) Owen McCavana (Caesar Scout) Kieran McCormick (Scout) Joe McGann (Chief Insp. Tomelty) Alan McKee (Supercillious official) Breffni McKenna (Webster) Aine Ni Mhuiri (Madam Grinns) John Michie (Col. Charrington Thurk) Jane Milligan (Mrs. Madigan) Mark Mulholland (George Devine) J.J. Murphy (Furg) Olivia Nash (Maudie O'Toole) Richard Ridings (Alex Walker) Paddy Scully (Rubens Croucher) Ruth Urquhart (Miss Murphy) Steven James Watson (Extra / Water-pump boy) Brenda Winter (Mrs. Eels) Peter Woodward (Col. Martin) |
Storyline: Puckoon is a wee Irish village that gets caught up in an argument about where the border separating Northern Ireland from Ireland should be. Keen to get the matter sorted before the pubs close, a random borderline is wrestled on the map of the Emerald Isle and Puckoon gets divided as well - literally. As the barbed wire fences and Army checkpoints go up overnight, suddenly people cannot get to their outhouses or walk from one side of the street to the other. It has some advantages - everyone squeezes into the tiniest corner of the pub because it is in Northern Ireland territory where the beer is cheaper, but worst of all is the church and its graveyard. Now the newly deceased need a valid passport, renewable every year, if they want to be buried "across the border". A plan is hatched to return the newly dead back to Ireland. At the same time, a plan is hatched to smuggle explosives in coffins to Northern Ireland with, as they say, hilarious results.
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