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Irish Jam
2006 American film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Irish Jam is a 2006 comedy film directed by John Eyres, who co-wrote the script with Max Myers. It stars Eddie Griffin as an African American who wins an Irish public house in a raffle and has to save the village from the clutches of an evil landlord. Despite the majority of the film being set in Ireland, it was not filmed there, nor were the actors Irish.
The film received extremely negative reviews from critics.
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Cast
- Eddie Griffin as Jimmy Winston "Da Jam"
- Anna Friel as Maureen Duffy
- Kevin R. McNally as Lord Hailstock
- Tom Georgeson as Father James Duffy
- Dudley Sutton as Pat Duffy
- Tallulah Pitt-Brown as Kathleen Duffy
- Tony Maudsley as Brian McNulty
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Tom Flannery
- Marion O'Dwyer as Donna
- Vass Anderson as Mr. Pettikreep
- Petey Pablo as Jimmy's street pot customer
- Mo'Nique as "Psycho"
- Angus Barnett as Milos O'Shea
- James Bradshaw as Malachy McNulty
- Ray Callaghan as Doc Murphy
- Christopher Dunne as Michael O'Malley
- Nevin Finegan as Sean McNulty
- Togo Igawa as Mr. Suzuki
- Cathy Murphy as Dora
- Justin Sharp as Mocking village youth
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Reception
The film was poorly received, especially in the United Kingdom. In its review of the DVD release, Empire called it a "worst possible Eddie Murphy knock-off" and questioned why Ireland would still have had an evil aristocratic English landlord in 2006.[citation needed]
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