Recommended DVDs marked with *. Underlined titles are links to review.
* Waking Ned Devine 10/29/04 (B+)
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The Day After Tomorrow 10/25/04
Jeff Foxworthy: You Might Be a Redneck/Check Your Neck 10/21/04 (C+)
* Chicago 10/20/04 (B)
About a Boy 10/15/04
Hidalgo 10/13/04 (C)
Fahrenheit 9/11 10/13/04 (C+)
* What's Eating Gilbert Grape 10/08/04 (B)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 10/04/04 (C-)
Mystery, Alaska 10/01/04
The Whole Nine Yards 10/01/04 (C+)
12/140/140
10/31/2004
10/29/2004
Waking Ned Devine (1998)
| Waking the Dead |  |
The hamlet of Tullymore, Ireland (pop. 53), has a problem. One of their residents, Ned Devine, has won the national lottery and a huge amount of money is his to claim.
The problem? Ned Devine has died, gripping the winning lottery ticket in his cold fist.
Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) solicits his friends Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) to assume Ned's identity and involves his own wife Annie O'Shea (Fionnula Flanagan) and villagers, Maggie (Susan Lynch), Pig Finn (James Nesbitt) and others in an attempt to fool the Lotto official (Brendan F. Dempsey) who comes to investigate the claim of the winner.
Can they pull it off? Can they lay claim to nearly 7 million pounds to split amongst themselves?
What results is a somewhat madcap adventure in deceit that seems near exploding at any moment.
Great fun, directed by Kirk Jones.
Rated PG for nudity, language and thematic elements.
My personal rating: B.
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