Kings (film)

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Kings
Directed by	Tom Collins
Produced by	Tom Collins Jackie Larkin
Written by	Tom Collins Jimmy Murphy
Starring	Colm Meaney Donal O'Kelly Brendan Conroy Donncha Crowley
Music by	Pol Brennan
Cinematography	Peter Robertson
Editing by	Dermot Diskin
Distributed by	High Point Film and Television Ltd
Release date(s)	21 September 2007
Running time	88 min.
Country	Ireland
Language	Irish, English
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Kings is a 2007 Irish film directed by Tom Collins and based on Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road.^[1] The film is bilingual, having both Irish and English dialogues. It was premièred at the Taormina Film Festival (Italy) in June 2006,^[2] and was selected as Ireland's official entry for the 2008 Academy Awards in the best foreign-language film category.^[3] The film tells the story of a group of Irish friends who, after emigrating to England 30 years previously, meet for the funeral of a friend.^[4]

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In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at a funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. Interspersing flashbacks of a lost youth in Ireland with the harsh realities of modern life.

For some the thirty years has been hard working in building sites across Britain. Slowly the truth about Jackie's death become clear and the friends discover they need each other more than ever. However, by the end, the friends split up for good, going their separate ways.^[4]

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role[5]
Colm Meaney	Joe Mullan
Donal O'Kelly	Jap Kavanagh
Brendan Conroy	Git
Donncha Crowley	Shay
Barry Barnes	Máirtín
Christopher Greene	Jap Jnr

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