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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Waking Ned / Waking Ned Devine
1998

Director: Kirk Jones
Cast: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch

When Ned Devine dies of a shock after winning the Lotto jackpot, the people in his tiny home village of Tullymore pretend that he's still alive so they can collect the prize money. This highly implausible and tiresomely unfunny farce was probably funded by the Irish Tourist Board in order to maintain the country's backwoods image in America.