Information
- BFI identifierN-626960
- Date2016 (Copyright)
- Production countryIreland
- Production company
- SynopsisTwo teenagers from Cork decide that finding a valuable haul of cocaine lost off the Irish coast is the easy answer to their problems. Nothing goes to plan however and the boys must evade police, drug dealers and parental disapproval in their race to survive theri adventure. (Synopsis) Using the reality of Ireland's record €440 million cocaine seizure in 2007 as a springboard, this buzzing buddy comedy follows two Cork teenagers' attempts to cycle to the coast and nab a washed-up bale of drugs to make their fortune. The plan should be idiot proof. Unfortunately, our wannabe criminal masterminds Conor and Jock are 24-carat eejits. And if their plans go awry pretty much from the get-go, their hapless attempts to outwit the local police, a psychotic dealer and Conor's no-nonsense single mum are a riot of deadpan dopiness and knockabout slapstick from start to finish. Neophyte feature writer-director Peter Foott and his terrific debutant leads maintain a blissfully innocent/ignorant tone throughout; and while the relationship between Conor and his mum (Hilary Rose, excellent) is genuinely touching, this caper is pure 'craic' cocaine, including the best visual nose-candy gag since Woody Allen's Annie Hall. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- Subject
- Credits
- CastAlex Murphy (Conor MacSweeney)
Chris Walley (Jock Murphy)
Hilary Rose (Mairead MacSweeney)
view full cast
Title
The Young Offenders (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/32E2-4096-4C3F-4B8A-79A0-SCategory
Fiction- Collections
No collections held by the BFI. This record is for information only.
- The Young Offenders
Work - N-626960 - 2016 (Copyright)
Ireland - Film - Fiction
No film or video materials are
held by the BFI National Archive
Hierarchy Display