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The Boondock Saints
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.
1999 · Directed by Troy Duffy · 108 min · Action · Thriller · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 15 frames
Tagline
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.
Plot
In Boston, Irish American fraternal twin brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus attend Mass, where the priest mentions the fate of Kitty Genovese. Later, while Connor and Murphy are celebrating Saint Patrick's Day with friends, three Russian mobsters arrive and try to shut down the pub so they can demolish it for the valuable land underneath. Despite Connor and Murphy's attempt to talk them down, a brawl ensues, in which the Russians are defeated and humiliated. The next morning, when two of the Russians seek revenge, the brothers beat them to death in self-defense.
FBI Special Agent Paul Smecker is assigned to the case and finds that the police and the press see the MacManus twins as heroes. The duo turn themselves in at a police station, where Smecker interviews them. After the twins retell their incident to Smecker, he declines to press charges and allows them to spend the night in a holding cell to avoid attention from the media. That night, they receive a "calling" from God telling them to rid Boston of all evil.
Connor learns that a local hotel is hosting a meeting of the Russian mob. Having equipped themselves with weaponry from an underground gun dealer, the twins kill nine Russian mobsters, while Rocco, a friend of the twins and errand boy for local mafia boss Giuseppe "Papa Joe" Yakavetta, surprises them after being sent by his boss to carry out a hit. Realizing that he was set up, Rocco agrees to help Connor and Murphy. That night, they hunt down and kill Vincenzo Lapazzi, Papa Joe's underboss, at a peep show.
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Crew
- Written by: Troy Duffy
- Cinematography: Adam Kane
- Edited by: Bill DeRonde
- Music: Jeff Danna
- Production design: Robert de Vico
- Produced by: Lloyd Segan, Elie Samaha, Robert N. Fried, Chris Brinker
Cast
- Willem Dafoe as Paul Smecker
- Sean Patrick Flanery as Conner MacManus
- Norman Reedus as Murphy MacManus
- David Della Rocco as Rocco
- Billy Connolly as Il Duce
- Bob Marley as Detective Greenly
- Brian Mahoney as Detective Duffy
- Gerard Parkes as Doc
- David Ferry as Detective Dolly
- Carlo Rota as Yakavetta
Production
- Country: Canada, United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish
- Studios: Franchise Pictures, Brood Syndicate, B.D.S. Productions Inc.
- Budget: $6,000,000
- Box office: $38,256
- Themes: bratva (russian mafia), boston, massachusetts, detective, irish-american, prologue, shootout, police station, pager, mob boss, duringcreditsstinger
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