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Kings (2007)

Kings (2007)

Drama

A group of men reunite for a friend's funeral.

Release Date: 2007, September 21
Directors: Tommy Collins
Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland
Production: Newgrange Pictures, Green Park Films, De Facto Fiction Films, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
Cast: Colm Meaney, Diarmuid de Faoite, Seán T. Ó Meallaigh, Brendan Conroy, Donncha Crowley, Barry Barnes, Doris Zajer, Donal O'Kelly, Christopher Greene

Overview:

In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks of a lost youth in Ireland with the harsh realities of modern life. For some the thirty years has been hard, working in building sites across Britain. Slowly the truth about Jackie's death become clear and the friends discover they need each other more than ever.