besherat SPOILER: In the Irish town of Tula Mor is one of 52 people get on the lottery 7 million pounds. Since no one raises an award, a small town trying to find out the reason. They found dead Ned, with a smile on his face tightening a ticket in hand. But in Ireland the law is such ,that only people who bought the ticket could raise the reward. Then the town because it unites, and hope that the money be divided into 51 section. Nice black comedy.Something from this movie which make mi laugh:Boy Morris talks with the priest and asked him: Have you met Jesus? He say-no. If he pay to you?-No. The priest ask him: Maurice, would you able to interest the church? Morris say : I would never have to work for someone which I never met , and who doesn't pay to me.

Athena-Press Fifteen minutes after attempting to log-in to my account, suffering through verification hoops and security stuff at IMDb (perhaps I am plotting some hacking scam, right?) I still want to write this short note. I surprised myself with the interest in endorsing this movie. "Waking Ned Devine" is a few years old but I watched it last night for the first time. How refreshing to find this gem. I believe this is what film is about, at least in my dying generation. A story well told, a craft mastered by the filmmaker, excellent, credible actors and a touch, just a touch of fantasy, enough to believe that life can and will turn everything around for the best, for everyone who has love in their heart (the only unanswered question would be if the lottery rep lived or died, did he die?) I demand more movies like this, and they are not only for us in our fifties and up, look at La-la whatever. We are all getting sick of special-effects-based movies. Come on Kirk, throw us another one.

SnoopyStyle In a tiny Irish seaside village Tullymore with only 52 souls, Ned Devine wins the national lottery and dies of shock. Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen), his wife Annie (Fionnula Flanagan) and friend Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) are trying to pin down who the winner is and being extra nice to everybody. They invite the lottery players to dinner and figures out that Ned Devine is the only one who didn't show up. Jackie convinces Michael to impersonate Ned to collect the winnings with the collusion of the entire town except for the town malcontent Lizzie Quinn.This is a charming little British movie. The laughs aren't big except maybe the naked old guy. Naked old guys are always fun. The locals are various variety of quirky eccentricity. I love the likable scheming trio. There is an undeniable charm about this village and an easy nice feel about this movie.

Bill Slocum "Waking Ned Devine" is a thing of beauty, a simple joy all the way through. Watching it is to feel a little less sorry for the stuff of life and death.Good fortune has come to the small coastal Irish village of Tullymore. One of its residents apparently holds a winning lottery ticket. But who? Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) gives his crafty mind a lot of exercise trying to figure it out. Eventually he does, but his discovery proves to be only the beginning, and it will take all his cleverness to see to it he isn't cheated of what he views as nothing less than his Devine reward.Imagine one of those fine old Ealing comedies, ramped up with scenics and whimsy right out of the more recent "Local Hero," and you get a pretty fair idea what to expect here. Director-writer Kirk Jones reveals himself in his first feature film as a worthy successor to Bill Forsyth and the rightly-vaunted British comedy tradition.Yes, it's set in Ireland, but was actually filmed on the Isle of Man, and draws its cast and crew from across the British Isles. It's only fair the film's a bit of a masquerade like that, as it celebrates an approach to life that's anything but on the level but wonderously amiable all the same.Watching Bannen's expressions of surreptitious glee while pushing his oldest, dearest friend Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) to commit crime is really too much of a pleasure to explain. You just root for him, and pause only a little to wonder at what else you'd let him get away with."He never told a lie in his life," O'Shea's concerned wife Annie (Fionnula Flannigan) exclaims as she catches him in the act."Well, he's makin' up for it now, so," Jackie coolly replies, one of many big laughs here.Kelly and Flannigan are Irish, so I guess they are more on the level than Bannen, a Scotsman. Together, the three make for a beautiful fulcrum for the film's ever-twisting plot. They are aided by a fine cast of stiffs, harridans, and lovable eccentrics who make up the lucky village of Tullymore.Jones really dresses up this pastoral comedy well, with stunning scenics of shore and sky. The Waterboys, Liam O'Maonlai, Rita Connelly, and assorted musicians provide a rousing score that add to this film's rich, charming quality.Even death itself isn't allowed to intrude upon things too much, though it does come a'calling more than once. A funeral service provides one of "Waking Ned Devine's" funniest and most affecting scenes as O'Shea eulogies one of the characters with a very witty capper of a line: "He had his faults!"I'm at a loss as to what faults I can call on "Waking Ned Devine." Maybe the fate of one unpleasant character seems a bit too left- field on reflection, but I was laughing too hard at the time to notice.The best thing about this movie is how it never lets up that way. It picks you up and never lets you relax even as it engages you. No sooner do you wonder how O'Shea and his co-conspirators will get out of one mess then they are in another, and scrambling as furiously and hilariously as ever. "Waking Ned Devine" is well named; a sleeper comedy that wakes you right up.