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The Hardy Bucks Movie

    • Director

      Mike Cockayne

    • Credits

      Producer:
      Mike Cockayne

      Writer:
      Mike Cockayne,
      Gerry Greaney

      Cinematographer:
      Rob Arrowsmith

    • 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 YouTube series before graduating to television and, here, to film with this uproarious comedy. Led by Eddie Durkan (Martin Maloney), the Hardy Bucks are a group of twenty-something country slackers only interested in shmoking, drinking, and fighting. Their cinema debut sees them lifted out of their usual stupor when Eddie, who is dreading spending another summer bored out of his skull, learns that 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

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