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Waking Ned Devine

1998

Kirk Jones

Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch ...

6.9

4,568

Comedy. Drama When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of those delightful village comedies that seem to spin out of the British isles annually (...) [You can] meet the characters and the actors and enjoy the pleasure of their company (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"[It is] a delight. It's for the Irish scamp in all of us"
		Derek Elley Variety	"A genial, feel-good item that should prove a moderate success in territories that respond to folksy Irish humor."
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It] could never work as well as it does without the wonderful performances of the scrawny, supremely dignified Mr. Kelly"
		Joshua Klein AV Club	"The movie possesses a fun wicked streak (...) This slight movie gets by on its grungy charm, if not its class."
		G. Allen Johnson SFGATE	"Here's a rare case of a film that needs to be longer. 'Waking Ned Devine' clocks in at barely 90 minutes, but since it's so friendly and pleasing to the eye, a bit more story exposition would have been wonderful"
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"The grand pleasure of 'Waking Ned Devine' (...) is that the aging community at the center of the hilarity behaves with dignity"
		Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"This debut by Jones is so cuddly-cute in its desire to be pleasing that it's all but transparent; what you can see of it is cobbled together out of some decidedly rancorous clichés (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"

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