The Craic (1999)

Directors

Ted Emery

Cast

Jimeoin McKeown, Alan McKee, Colin Hay, Bob Franklin, Robert Morgan

The story

It is 1988, and two best friends from Ireland—Fergus Montagu (Jimeoin) and Wesley Murray (McKee)—flee from Belfast after a violent confrontation with Colin (Robert Morgan) of the IRA and illegally enter Australia, finding seasonal work picking fruit at orchards to afford hostels, sustenance and booze costs (but so cash-strapped, their whiskey and cokes are made by taking swigs of whiskey and coke, mixing the two on the fly in their mouth), the last often used to dull the two's fear of immigration officers. After some gentle persuasion, Fergus goes on a TV dating game show and wins a trip to Queensland. This, however, occurs just as the…

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