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 The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995) - Starring as Morgan the Goat |
Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant), is an English cartographer with Her Majesty's Ordnance Survey Office who visits the small South Wales village of Ffynnon Garw with his assistant George Garrard (Ian McNeice), to measure what is claimed to be the "first mountain inside of Wales". It's 1917, and the war in Europe continues. The villagers are very proud of their "mountain", and are dissapointed and furious to find that it is in fact a "hill". Not to be outwitted by a rule, the villagers set out to make their hill into a mountain, but to do so they must keep them from leaving, before the job is done.
- Morgan the Goat is the local inn-keeper that riles up the townsfolk. |
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| The Van (1996) - Starring as Larry |
The third installment of Irish author Roddy Doyle's 'Barrytown Trilogy' depicts the hilarious yet poignant adventures of Bimbo (Donal O'Kelly). Upon being fired from his job at the bakery, Bimbo and his best mate go into business for themselves and purchase a fish and chips van.
- Larry is Bimbo's best friend that goes in on the van with him. They're friendship is strained because of Larry's lack of work ethics, like grime under his fingernails. |
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| Con Air (1997) - Starring as DEA Agent Duncan Malloy |
War veteran Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is sentenced to eight years in prison when he accidentally kills a man in a fight. He's aboard a flight transporting ten dangerous men to another facility. Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich), is a serial killer and hijacks the plane. Another criminal called The Marietta Mangler (Steve Buscemi) is also on board the plane. Poe has to find a way to keep himself alive, and try to find medicine for a cellmate who will die without it. Cameron also tries to help the cops on the ground, including agent Vince Larkin (John Cusack).
- DEA Agent Duncan Malloy is short-tempered and looking to shoot down the plane after the death of a fellow Agent. He also has his new car destroyed when towed by the plane. |
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| Claire Dolan (1998) - Starring as Roland Cain |
| Claire Dolan is an Irish immigrant, working as a Manhattan call girl, paying off a debt she owes her pimp, Roland Cain. She's almost without affect, much like the sterile, glass-and-concrete high-rises where she lives and works. Violence lurks just below the surface. Cain can be menacing as are men who approach her. When her mother dies, Claire tries to escape the life, moving to Newark, visiting a cousin, working as a manicurist, realizing that she wants to have a baby, and going out a couple of times with a cabby. But Cain finds her and insists on payment, so she returns to Manhattan. The cabby wants to help: can Claire leave prostitution and find happiness in motherhood? |
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| The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) (TV) - Starring as Seamus Muldoon |
| American businessman Jack Woods (Randy Quaid) rents a cottage on the enchanted Emerald Isle which is occupied by a family of leprechauns. Leprechaun Seamus Muldoon's son and son's friends crash the fairies' costume ball and Muldoon's son falls in love with fairy Princess Jessica. Their love re-ignites a feud between the leprechauns and the fairies, which escalates into a war. The Grand Banshee warns of terrible consequences and Jack Woods is chosen to make peace. Woods interrupts his own romance with an Irish beauty to help, and becomes involved in a strange and wonderful magical adventure. |
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Intermission (2003) - Starring as Jerry Lynch |
Sally (Shirley Henderson) is a downtrodden young woman, and is also the sister of Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald) who is on the rebound after a hard breakup. Her ex-boyfriend John (Cillian Murphy) works as a clerk at a department store. His colleague Oscar (David Wilmot) is an impotent shy lad who finally finds a solution with Noeleen (Deirdre O'Kane), an older woman whose husband has just left her for the much-younger Deirdre. When a shocking bus accident occurs, the characters are brought together and forced to face the reality of their tangled lives.
- Jerry is the overzealous cop that's busy chasing after a harmless criminal named Lehiff (Colin Farrell).
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| The Boys from County Clare (2003) - Starring as Jimmy |
The All-Ireland Traditional Music Competition attracts the best musicians from all over the country -- and a few from beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle as well. As John Joe and his band prepare to capture the band trophy with their County Clare jigs and reels, Irishman Jimmy bends his Liverpudlians away from jazz toward the time-honored strains of Celtic music. As the musicians make their way towards the competition, trouble rears its head for both sets of challengers: the Liverpool Shamrock Ceilidh Band and the defending champions from Clare, and at the heart of this adversity lie the vengeful interventions of two estranged brothers, Jimmy and John Joe.
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| Blueberry (2004) - Starring as McClure |
| In the 1870's, U.S Marshal Mike S. Blueberry tries to stop Wally Blount, the man who killed his girlfriend, from getting to a stockpile of gold hidden in Indian territory. On his way, he meets Prosit, a German villain on a persistent mission to find gold in the Superstition Mountains. |
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| Bad Apple (2004) (TV) - Starring as Cuthbert Gibbons |
| Two FBI agents, Mike Tozzi (Chris Noth) and Cuthbert Gibbons, try to bring down a loan-sharking business run by the mob. Things become increasingly intense after a series of crosses and double-crosses leave both agents at the mercy of their targets. But that doesn't prevent the sexual tension from heating up, as one of the agents (Noth) gets tangled up with his informant's sister. |
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| Layer Cake (2004) (also spelled L4YER CAK3) - Starring as Gene |
A cocaine dealer plans an early retirement from the business. Big boss Jimmy Price says to find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich daughter of Jimmy's old pal. There's two million pounds' worth of ecstasy, a neo-Nazi sect and double crossings. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime. The title refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top.
- Gene is Jimmy's right-hand man and a loyal gundog too. He's an old school criminal who knows everyone, has seen it all, and figures all angles. |
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| Turning Green (2005) - Starring as Tom |
| Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to America. One lucky weekend in London, James discovers pornography and, desperate for cash, he decides to sell them back in Ireland. His success spreads wildly. After finding a possible way home, he must decide where home really is, and finds that one's place in the world is all a state of mind. |
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| Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005) (TV) - Starring as Harold Garrett in "In the Wee Small Hours, Parts 1 and 2" |
This show centers on the NYPD's Major Case Squad and Detective Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) in its efforts to stop the worst criminal offenders in New York. It also puts a new twist to the "Law & Order" formula when we see the crimes as they are planned and committed.
In this episode, the squad continues the investigation into the murder of a teenage girl visiting from Iowa. The detectives uncover the sordid family life of a local judge whose son is linked to the Iowa teenager and another victim. Goren and Logan discover that the judge is a formidable foe as they come under scrutiny. |
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