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Knowing where to draw the line
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Puckoon
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Sean Hughes Elliott Gould Daragh O'Malley John Lynch Griff Rhys Jones Nickolas Grace B.J. Hogg John Kavanagh Richard Ridings David Kelly Milo O’Shea Freddie Jones Richard Attenborough Marc Sinden Frankie McCafferty Conor Mullen Margaret D'Arcy Richard Dormer Charles Lawson John Michie Paul Loughran Joe McGann Maureen Dow Ronnie Drew Enda Fields Patrick Fields Anthony Finigan Stuart Gibson Clifford Hadyn-Tovey Show All…
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Puckoon - Halki ja poikki, Пакун, 愛爾蘭的沙頭角
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Ireland
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Ireland
01 Jan 2002
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One of Spike Milligan’s best creations brought to life. Sean Hughes plays the Milligan role, and aside from the occasional weird line delivery is a good stand in for the great man. It would always have been a difficult task to film this book as it features conversations between the author (Milligan) and his main character (also Milligan), and interference by the author in the story. This is handled with the use of a narrative voice, supposedly that of the writer, and odd use of the camera. It sort of works. Mainly it is a black comedy look at the partition of Ireland, from Milligan’s usual perspective that the world is made up of arrogant bullying interfering idiots making life…
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