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  • Waking Ned Devine
  • Opened September 15, 1998
  • PG
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 11+. Read More
  • When best friends Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) and Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) discover someone in their small Irish village has won the lottery, they immediately set off to see if the winner is in a sharing mood. Deducing that Ned Devine is the Read More
  • Cast: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch, James Nesbitt
  • Director: Kirk Jones
  • Genres: Black Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Comedy

Waking Ned Devine Critic Reviews

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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Stack

    This one's so much fun, it's worth taking the whole family.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly |

    Unfolds with such unforced inevitability that absurdity never condescends to...

  • 90
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    The plot is far from intricate, but Waking Ned Devine more than makes up for...

  • 90
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    Kirk Jones, who wrote and directed this blithe comedy, has been a prize-winning...

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