Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles has one - Austin - only he's too much of a slacker to do anything about it. In fact, each one of these layabouts is as useless as the other: a pair of thirty-somethings who laze around watching their lives flutter past. Fate, however, has plans to remedy their lack of motivation. Up to their necks in debt, they decide to help a dodgy entrepreneur, Gerard , to create a new landmark in Irish tourism: a Famine Theme Park.
Film Crew
- : Tom Hall
- : Arthur Matthews
- : Tim Fleming
- : Suzanne Keogh
- : Kristina Hetherington
- : Trevor Cunningham
- : Neil Hannon
- : Laurel Wear
- : Donal O'Farrell
- : Grand Pictures
- : Element Pictures Distribution
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- Color
- English
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Wide Open Spaces channels classic double act dramas, from Laurel & Hardy to Withnail and I, combined with a thematic sensibility, to create a comedic escapade.-
"A melancholy, miserabilist buddy comedy with a fondness for strained eccentricity, Wide Open Spaces is a very acquired taste indeed. A game cast extracts scattered laughter from the mixture of weird situations, deadpan banter and oddball characters but the sketchy, rambling script never coheres into an engaging whole"
Allan Hunter, The Edinburgh Post -
"Sometimes the best ideas are born out of sheer boredom and circumstance. Sometimes they're born out of greed and overactive imaginations. For the characters in this film it's a combination of all these factors and the results are often very funny."
Linda McGee, RTE -
"Watching futility bloom into low-grade despair is like eating soggy chips on a rainy night in Belfast after being robbed at gunpoint. You don’t want to be there and yet no one is going to make you feel better."
Angus Wolfe Murray, Eye For Film
Probably the worst Irish film I have ever seen. And I've seen Headrush. And Zonad. So that's saying something. Disjointed, meaningless, soulless, storyless, empty. How did this get made? Seems like it was started, then a couple of days into production the director said to himself "this is shite" and decided to make the worst film ever made and noone told him to stop. This type of thing makes me literally cry as the little money that the Irish film industry does have shouldnt be wasted like this. It would have been morally better to pile it all in a bin and set fire to it, at least someone could have been kept warm. As it is, the world is left a lot colder by its creation..
I don't often not watch a film to the end - in this case I made an exception.. avoid! NOT funny.