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Fran the Man

    • Director

      Stephen Bradley

    • Credits

      Producer:
      Collie McCarthy

      Writer:
      Richie Conroy

      Cinematographer:
      Ross O'Callaghan

    • Principal Cast

      Darragh Humphreys,
      Ardal O’Hanlon,
      Amy Huberman,
      Risteard Cooper,
      Toni O’Rourke
      Deirdre O’Kane,
      Eddie Marsan.

  • Category

    Feature

Competing in the FAI Cup for the first time should have been amateur Irish football club St Peter’s United’s finest hour, but when blundering assistant manager Fran Costello learns that some of his players have taken a bribe to fix the match, he realises it’s time to unleash his inner detective to expose the fraudsters!

Fran’s life is further complicated by a slow-burning infatuation with Jackie Charlton – the mothers of one of his young players. For someone who has used football to shy away from life, Fran is being catapulted headfirst into all it has to offer.

Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland

89 minutes, Ireland, 2025, Colour

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