- The Craic
Infobox Film
name = The Craic|
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caption = The Craic poster|
director =Ted Emery |
producer =Marc Gracie Jimeoin |
writer =Jimeoin |
starring =Jimeoin Alan McKee
Bob FranklinColin Hay
distributor = Roadshow Entertainment
released =29 April 1999 |
runtime = 89 min.|
country = flagicon|AustraliaAustralia
language = English|
imdb_id = 0132907|"The Craic" is a 1999
Australia ncomedy film starringJimeoin andAlan McKee and directed byTed Emery .Two Irish actors (Jimeoin McKeown, Alan McKee) flee from
1988 Belfast after a violent confrontation with a leader (Robert Morgan) of the IRA and illegally enterAustralia . Seekingacting work, the two fearimmigration officers. McKeown happens to get selected as the bachelor on a TV dating game and wins a trip toQueensland just as the pair's apartment is raided by immigration. McKee escapes just in time and joins his friend. Meanwhile, the IRA leader is sent to Australia in awitness protection program after he gives up some of his former colleagues. The two then spend the remainder of the movie being pursued by the immigration officers and the vengeful IRA head.External links
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=460665;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 The Craic at the National Film and Sound Archive]
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