Details

Release year: 1999

Storyline

Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes in order to try to wipe out Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God.

Top credits

Directors

Troy Duffy

Writers

Troy Duffy

Cast

Willem Dafoe — Paul Smecker
Sean Patrick Flanery — Connor MacManus
Norman Reedus — Murphy MacManus
David Della Rocco — Rocco

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Did you know

• The church where Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) attend Mass, Church of the Covenant, is not a Catholic church, but a Lutheran one. No Catholic churches in the area would allow filming in their sanctuaries due to their objections to the plot of this movie.

• Sir Billy Connolly was so stoked to be playing against type in the role of Il Duce, and having so much fun playing a psycho with guns strapped all over him, that they had to add the large cigar the character incessantly smokes because unless they stuck something in his mouth, he simply couldn't stop smiling.

• Troy Duffy recollects going to a bar with Rocco during production. There was a girl working there who Rocco really liked. As chance would have it, this girl was a huge Willem Dafoe fan, and Rocco ended up getting Dafoe into the bar. When she saw him, the girl was very excited and began asking him for an autograph. Dafoe, always the smoothie, told the girl he'd give her an autograph if it was okay with Rocco.