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The Craic is a film of genre Comedy released in USA on 29 april 1999 with Jimeoin (pronounced Jim-Owen)

The Craic (1999)

The Craic
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Released in USA 29 april 1999
Length 1h29
Genres Comedy
Rating55% 2.75672.75672.75672.75672.7567

The Craic is a 1999 Australian comedy film starring Jimeoin and Alan McKee and directed by Ted Emery.

Synopsis

It's 1988 and two best friends from Ireland (Jimeoin McKeown, Alan McKee) flee from Belfast after a violent confrontation with Colin (Robert Morgan) of the IRA and illegally enter Australia. The two fear immigration officers, and (after some gentle persuasion) Fergus Montague (McKeown) goes on a TV dating game show and wins a trip to Queensland in the process. This, however, occurs just as the pair's apartment is raided by immigration officer Derek Johnson [(Nicolas Bell)] and Wesley Murray (McKee) is forced to escape and eventually joins his friend in Queensland. Meanwhile, Colin is sent to Australia in a witness protection program after he gives up some of his former colleagues, and (much to the skepticism of his watchers, the SAS) names Fergus and Wesley as terrorists. Irritated by their lack of progress he eventually takes off to find them himself.

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