The Yank

Mar 17, 2014

1h 26m

★ 3.5

A comedy about finding your roots....with beer.

Overview

Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Kim Strategies

Wet Ears Productions

Emerald Force

Post Industrial Pictures

Rampage Entertainment

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Cast

Fintan McGuire

Colm Meaney

Peter Murphy

Fred Willard

Fred Finnegan

Kevin Farley

Colleen

Nicole Forester

Vanessa

Niki Spiridakos

Fiona McGuire

Charlotte Bradley

Declan Sweeney

Martin Maloney

Molly Sweeney

Lynette Callaghan

Carmel

Maya Sayre

Sasha

Nancy Telzerow

Mrs. Fitzgerald

Annie Kitral

Rock Hall Security

Leilani Barrett

Adam and Paul are two young junkies living in Dublin and perpetually on the lookout for their next fix. During their search, they encounter various unsavoury characters and make some futile attempts at petty theft. As their day progresses, Adam and Paul get into a good share of trouble as they do whatever they can to score heroin, eventually running afoul of an imposing thug—who only drags them into more shady activities.

7.6

Love of the Irish

Jan 4, 2025

Tired of her bad luck, Fiona takes her mom on a trip to Ireland to turn things around where she meets a charming single dad who helps her make her own luck.

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0.0

Ditched

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When Ava’s wannabe-rock star fiancé Simon is a no-show on the big day, the trio embark on a fury-fuelled, mayhem-filled road trip to the West of Ireland to find (and possibly murder) the runaway groom who’s ditched the wedding for his big break at a music festival.

5.8

Laws of Attraction

Apr 4, 2004

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

7.3

The Commitments

Aug 14, 1991

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.

0.0

Separation Anxiety

Jan 1, 1997

On a warm summer's day in the not too distant future, Ireland's first divorce case is unravelling on national television. The lives of several neurotic middle class couples are followed as they reflect on their relationships in the context of legalised divorce.

4.8

Boy Eats Girl

Aug 2, 2005

A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.

6.7

Garage

Oct 5, 2007

Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things start to change, however, when David, the son of his boss' girlfriend, comes to work with him. Josie hangs out with David and his teenage friends, bringing them beer, and despite being a grown man himself, finds that the new company lifts his spirits. But his simple-mindedness blinds him to some potential legal dangers.

5.6

The Nan Movie

Mar 18, 2022

Catherine Tate's iconic character Nan hits the big screen as she goes on a wild road trip from London to Ireland with her grandson Jamie to make amends with her estranged sister Nell. Militant vegan arsonists, raucous rugby teams, all night raves and crazed cops on motorbikes all make for a proper day out. An origin story that mixes Nan's present with her past where we finally find out what's made her the cantankerous old bastard she is today.

6.0

Cowboys & Angels

Jul 23, 2004

This story concerns a hapless civil servant who gets more than he bargains for when he moves into an apartment in Limerick with a gay fashion student and becomes a star on the catwalk. A contemporary story embracing the essence of what it is to be young in today's Ireland.

7.2

Six Shooter

Oct 14, 2004

Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a troubled young man identified only as the 'Kid'. As the Kid becomes more agitated and foul-mouthed, the journey takes on a violent and dangerous hue – for the bereaved Donnelly and for other hapless passengers on the train. Academy Award Winner: Best Live Action Short Film – 2005

6.9

Leap Year

Jan 8, 2010

When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.

6.0

The Boys & Girl from County Clare

Sep 12, 2003

In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.

7.3

The Quiet Man

Jul 21, 1952

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

0.0

Fíorghael

Oct 15, 2005

Ever get the feeling someone is talking about you?

6.0

Apocalypse Clown

Jul 14, 2023

When a mysterious technological blackout plunges Ireland into anarchy and chaos, a group of failed, washed-up clowns are forced to traverse the country for one last shot at their dreams.

0.0

O'Donoghue's Opera

Mar 7, 1998

In this mock opera infused with gallows humour, Ronnie Drew and his band of bohemian merrymakers, The Dubliners, re-enact the execution ballad ‘The Night Before Larry Was Stretched’. Larry finds himself caught in a hangman’s noose as just reward for being ‘the best burglar in all Ireland’. Made in 1965, the film remained uncompleted and unseen until its restoration in 1998.