The Young Offenders

Movie
German title	The Young Offenders
Original title	The Young Offenders
Country of production	Ireland
original language	English
Publishing year	2016
length	85 minutes
Rod
Director	Peter Foott
script	Peter Foott
production	Peter Foott, ; Julie Ryan
music	Ray Harman
camera	Patrick Jordan
cut	Colin Campbell
occupation
	Alex Murphy : Conor MacSweeney; Chris Walley : Jock Murphy; Hilary Rose : Mairead MacSweeney; Dominic MacHale : Cop Healy; PJ Gallagher : Ray; Shane Casey : Billy Murphy; Pascal Scott : Farmer; Ciaran Bermingham : Police Commissioner Flynn; Michael Sands : Jock's father; Cora Fenton : Jock's mother; Stephen O'Connor : Angry Father; Fionula Linehan : DIY store cashier;

The Young Offenders ( English for the juvenile offender is) an Irish comedy film from the year 2016 . Directed by Peter Foott , who also wrote the script.

action

Best friends Conor and Jock are two teenagers from Cork who dress and act alike. Jock is a notorious bike thief who plays a game of cat and mouse with the cop Healy every day. Conor is the son of a single mother, Mairead, who works as a fish seller in a market hall. When a drug ship capsized off the coast of west County Cork and the 61 bales of cocaine that had gone overboard were confiscated by police, news spreads that a bale of cocaine worth 7 million euros was missing.

Jock steals two bicycles and sets off for the coast with Conor, hoping to find the missing bale and then sell it and escape their difficult everyday lives. However, Healy is on their heels. The boys soon find the bale of cocaine and steal it from a disabled drug dealer named Ray. Because of a hole in the heel, they lose the cocaine on the way back. Ray is on the trail of the boys. He steals a nail gun from a hardware store and angrily breaks into Conor's house just as Healy shows up at the house. Healy clears up the matter and arrests Ray. Jock is taken into care with Conor and his mother because of his bad childhood.

production

The film is based on the seizure of 1.5 tons of cocaine off the Irish coast near the Mizen Peninsula in 2007. It was shot in Cork and along the Wild Atlantic Way .

publication

The Young Offenders premiered at Galway Film Fleadh on July 8, 2016 and won the Best Irish Feature Film award. The film was the fastest to break the one million euros mark at the Irish box office. Carnaby Sales and Distribution has acquired the international distribution rights to the film, while Vertigo Releasing will release the film in the UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. The film was released worldwide on the video-on-demand service Netflix in 2017 .

criticism

The Irish film received positive reviews in Ireland and the UK . The Irish Examiner gave the film four out of five stars and judged: "Huge potential for this rare breakthrough hit, which also achieved cult status with its infinitely quotable one-liners". The Irish Times called the film one of the highlights of the Galway film Fleadh and wrote that Walley and Murphy are "brilliant as tracksuit-wearing idlers who, while lazy, impulsive and ignorant, always remain infinitely lovable". The British film magazine Empire saw the film as "the best Irish comedy since Sing Street " and praised the "hearty humor and winning acting".