Waking Ned
Devine
DOWN &
DIRTY:
Comedy: A small Irish town hopes
to pass off one of its citizens
as the winner of a huge lottery,
after the original winner dies of
a heart attack.
NITTY GRITTY:
In the small Irish village of
Tullymore, the locals are buzzing
when they hear that one of their
own has won the national lottery.
Two lifelong buddies, Jackie
O'Shea (IAN BANNEN) and Michael
O'Sullivan (DAVID KELLY) set out
to discover the identity of the
winner, and cozy up to them in
hopes of sharing some of the
money.
They begin courting the other
forty-nine residents of their
coastal village. Among them is
Pig Finn (JAMES NESBITT), the
local pig farmer with an odor
problem, his girlfriend Maggie
(SUSAN LYNCH), who would marry
him to help raise her son,
Maurice (ROBERT HICKEY), if not
for her dislike of pigs, and Mrs.
Kennedy (MAURA O'MALLEY) who runs
the local post office.
The winner could also be the
town's bitter old spinster, Lizzy
Quinn (EILEEN DROMEY), who gets
around town on a motorized
scooter, Pat Mulligan (FINTAN
McKEOWN), who's also courting
Maggie or even Father Patrick
(DERMOT KERRIGAN), a visiting
priest.
Jackie and Michael discover that
Ned Devine (JIMMY KEOGH), has the
winning lottery ticket -- but has
died of a heart attack from the
shock of winning.
Knowing that Ned has no family
and that the money will go back
to the lottery board, Jackie
decides to have Michael pose as
the winner and collect the prize.
Jim Kelly (BRENDAN F. DEMPSEY),
the lotto representative from
Dublin, arrives and Jackie and
Michael find that the prize is
much larger than they figured --
nearly seven million pounds. They
also discover that they need the
help of everyone in Tullymore to
pull off their scam.
THE ENDING:
After agreeing to split the money
with the entire village, everyone
agrees to go along with the plan.
All, except Lizzy Quinn, who
rides her motorized scooter into
town to use the phone to call the
lotto officials and get a 10%
reward for exposing the scam.
As the town folk celebrate and
discuss their uses of the
soon-to-be-had money, the lotto
representative drives into town.
He yawns and almost hits the
phone booth where Lizzy is
calling. He misses, but
over-corrects his car and barely
misses a passing truck. The truck
swerves to miss the car, but hits
the phone booth, sending it
flying.
With Lizzy now caput, the town
gets the dough.
WHAT EVERYONE WILL BE
TALKING ABOUT:
Where's my lotto ticket?
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