A comedy movie about two Catholic and Protestant toupée salesmen in Belfast during The Troubles. Here is a particularly funny scene: https://youtu.be/3RgRVQqUhhM?si=EQP-S0twX2bOlw7s

Has anybody else seen it? Really recommended if you haven’t!

by Last_Ant_5201

12 comments

  1. A timeless classic! Used to be on sky years ago; watched it every time!

  3. >In 2001, one of the film’s producers, Jerome O’Connor, filed a $10 million lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan against Steven Spielberg’s studio DreamWorks, the film’s distributor. He complained that, although his film had received favorable reviews, the studio had reduced distribution from a projected 800 to eight theaters in the United States, and then pulled it from distribution. O’Connor alleged the film was “sabotaged” because director Barry Levinson would not change scenes to please British officials in its Foreign Office, which objected to its “sympathetic portrayal” of the IRA. O’Connor claimed DreamWorks officials feared the film might interfere with Steven Spielberg’s attaining an honorary knighthood (which Spielberg received in January 2001).[2]

    This is probably why….

  4. From memory I put it on as it had Billy Connolly in it. Didn’t see much of him but enjoyed the movie all the same.

  5. Great film. I recorded it off the telly years ago and watched it repeatedly.

    Loved the scene with the dairy farmer.

  6. Saw it in cinema when it came out, thought it was so so.

  9. Think ill get this on at the weekend. Trailer looks great

  11. One of our faves. We watch it at least once a year. We just had a session of quotes from it! We’re here fer yer hairpiece!

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