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Director
Mike Cockayne
Credits
Producer: Mike Cockayne. Writer: Mike Cockayne, Gerry Greaney
Principal Cast
Martin Maloney, Chris Tordoff, Owen Colgan, Peter Cassidy, Tom Kilgallon
Category
Feature
Something of a media phenomenon in Ireland, The Hardy Bucks began life as a series of YouTube videos before graduating to television and, here, to film with this uproarious comedy. Led by Eddie (Martin Maloney), the ‘Hardy Bucks’ are a group of twenty-something country slackers only interested in smoking, drinking, and fighting. Their cinema debut sees them lifted out of their usual stupor when they learn arch-enemy Francis ‘The Viper’ Higgins (Chris Tordoff) is travelling to Poland to see Ireland’s football team compete in the summer’s European Championships. Setting off in pursuit, Eddie and his friends quickly entangle themselves in a drug smuggling ring, jeopardising their chances of making it to the tournament on time. Transferring a TV show to the cinema screen has often proved disastrous but it is here managed with aplomb, as the ribald humour that made The Hardy Bucks a national sensation arrives on film fully formed.
89 minutes, Ireland/Poland/Netherlands/Germany/France, 2013, Colour
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (PROGRAMME 2) 12.50
CROSSING 15.20, 20.55
HEART OF AN OAK 18:00
LA CHIMERA 20.30
SHAYDA 13.00 (OC), 18.00
SLEEP 13.15
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 18.30
THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW 13.40
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 16.00
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