Two elderly best friends discover that somebody in the village has won the lottery – the question is who? Once they have figured out that it’s a friend of theirs called Ned Devine, they go to find him. When they do, they get a shock as Ned has died from shock after seeing that his lottery ticket was the winning one. The two friends decide that Ned would not want his win to be wasted but would want the entire village to share in his good fortune so they make all the villagers swear not to tell anybody that Ned has died in return for everyone sharing the lottery money. When a lottery official arrives in the village, the villagers find that fooling the official is harder than they’d imagined. The film was full of enjoyable Irish whimsy and the ending was one of the funniest I have ever seen.
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Waking Ned [1999]
When local wag Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) discovers that one of his neighbours in the
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village of Tulaigh Mohr is a lottery winner he sees a chance to share in the wealth. Things get complicated when Jackie and his pal Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) d...
Waking Ned [1999]
When local wag Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) discovers that one of his neighbours in the
... more
village of Tulaigh Mohr is a lottery winner he sees a chance to share in the wealth. Things get complicated when Jackie and his pal Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) d...
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