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Kings(Movie, 2007)

1h 28min | Genre: Drama
KingsRating: 2.8/5 (with 44 votes)
Kings is a 2007 Irish film written & directed by Tom Collins and based on Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road. The film is bilingual, having both Irish and English dialogue. It premiered at the Taormina Film Festival (Italy) in June 2007, and was selected as Ireland's official entry for the 2008 Academy Awards in the best foreign-language film category. 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. In 2008, the Irish postal service, An Post, issued a series of stamps honouring the Irish film industry. Colm Meaney, as Joe Mullan, was featured on the 55 cent stamp. ()
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About Kings

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 the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses 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.

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Additional Information

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Production country: Ireland
Based on: "The Kings of the Kilburn High Road" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: Irish (GA)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Irish (GA)
Translated into 4 languages: Bulgarian (BG), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Released
Release date US: 09/21/2007
Director: Tommy Collins
Composer: Pól Brennan
Production Designer: David Craig

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Other movies with this title: Kings (BE/FR, 2017), Kings (2018), Kings (US, 2021)

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