Waking Ned
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| Waking Ned | |
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 IMDB  7.2/10 (8,300 votes) |
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| Directed by | Kirk Jones |
| Produced by | Richard Holmes Glynis Murray |
| Written by | Kirk Jones |
| Starring | Ian Bannen David Kelly |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1998 |
| Running time | 91 min. |
| Country | Isle of Man (Crown dependency) |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,000,000 (est.) |
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Waking Ned, titled Waking Ned Devine in North America, is a 1998 comedy starring Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan.
David Kelly was nominated for a Screen Actors' Guild award for his role in Waking Ned.
Shaun Davey wrote the film score for Waking Ned.
The film was shot in and around the village of Cregneash and other locations on the Isle of Man.
Taglines:
- Finally, a comedy that will make you feel like a million bucks.
- This fall, odds are, you'll get lucky.
- How far would you go to win a fortune!
- There are 6,894,620 reasons for... Waking Ned.
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[edit] Plot
When word reaches Jackie and Michael, two elderly best friends that someone in their fictional tiny Irish village of Tullymore has won the national lottery, they go to great lengths to find the winner so they can share the wealth. After a chicken-dinner plot to narrow down their list of suspects, they pay a midnight visit to the only absentee: Ned Devine. They find Ned in his home, still holding the ticket in his hand, a smile on his face and dead of shock. Jackie is later convinced by a dream that the deceased Ned wants to share the winnings. After discovering that the winnings are far greater than anticipated, Jackie and Michael are forced to involve the entire village in order to fool the claim inspector. The villagers enter a pact to pretend that Ned is alive and well, by having Michael pose as him. However, one villager decides not to enter the pact and attempts to blackmail the entire village by reporting the fraud and winning ten percent of the lottery share. However, later in the story she dies in a car accident by the claim inspector's car crashing into the phone booth she is using to report the fraud and the money is shared amongst the villagers.
[edit] Trivia
- An example of a visual error occurs in Waking Ned, when two of the film's major characters, Jackie (Bannen) and Michael (Kelly), are walking through a storm toward the winner's house. The umbrella they are under is black during their conversation as they walk towards the house (filmed from slightly above and to the front); yet after cutting to a lower shot (filmed from behind Jackie), Michael walks onscreen from the right holding an umbrella that is not black but beige, with a brown band at the rim.
- Several reviewers consider the 2006 Bollywood film Malamaal Weekly to have been plagiarised from Waking Ned.
- In regard to its humorous and affectionate description of the locals, the movie has often been compared with The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, a film set in Wales, starring Hugh Grant.
[edit] References
- Waking Ned Devine: An Original Screenplay by Kirk Jones. ScreenPress Books, 1999
