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The Craic was
Mighty
by
Roy French
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THE CRAIC WAS MIGHTY is a bittersweet comedy/drama about three childhood
friends from Ireland who left their troubled homeland and are
now reuniting in their forties, in the midst of a collective mid life crisis.
Mayhem ensues.
The buddy film, about friends David, Sean and Neil, intersperses comedy with
a thriller subplot. Although the three boys grew up together and were very
close, Sean and Neil were never aware that David had been a paramilitary
enforcer in Northern Ireland. The film begins with the young boys growing up
together in more innocent times.
Through flashbacks we learn gradually why David undertook a dark passage as
“the Raven” all the while seeming like an average lad to his buddies—if you
can call anyone who survived the ‘troubles’ average. So when the youthful
David suddenly announced to his friends that he was moving away, to Canada,
it came as a shock. Now, eighteen years later David is returning for the
first time, to celebrate Neil's fortieth birthday in London.
With light-hearted and very dark overtones, the hi-jinks of the reunion
proliferate into chaos and confusion. The darkness that had become David's
past now looms up in front of him and threatens to engulf him and his
friends. He can’t leave his violent past just yet. He must complete one final
mission that turns out to be a very personal laying
down of arms.
For more information about this developing project,
working title THE CRAIC WAS MIGHTY, please contact: davidroyfrench@rogers.com
In addition to THE CRAIC WAS MIGHTY, Roy has completed the screenplay for
BULLSEYE, a comedy about a dart’s tournament in St. Johns, as well as
co-written UTOPIA and MAD with Robert Lange.
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