WAKING NED DEVINE Is an Underrated Heist Movie
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Waking Ned Devine is an undeniably delightful comedy. Set along the Irish coast in the fictional village of Tullymore, at the outset it looks like a fun buddy comedy about a pair of aging friends who spend their time playing the lottery, paling around at their local pub, and going for joyrides on a little motorbike. But there’s one very important caveat: the 1998 film is a actually heist movie.
In a way it’s a very understated heist film. There are no weapons and certainly no breaking into bank vaults in the dead of night. In fact, nobody travels beyond the outskirts of the fictional village of Tullymore. (Besides, of course, an unassuming lottery man coming in from Dublin to scope out the claim of a winning lottery ticket.) However, at its core it’s a film about two men pulling off a scheme to defraud the Irish National Lottery to the tune of seven million pounds.