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Eat the Peach

Plot

Irish youths Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and Arthur (Eamon Morrissey) fight their ongoing boredom by running a video print of Elvis Presley's Roustabout. If you've seen that film, you'll remember that at one point, Elvis participates in "The Wall of Death," a dangerous cylindrical motorcycle stunt. Suddenly inspired, Vinnie and Arthur set about constructing their own Wall of Death. Supplies are costly, but the boys are benumbed to reality by their dreams of fame and fortune. Entering the picture (and foredooming the project) is con artist Boots (Niall Toibin), who claims to be an American showman bent upon giving Vinnie and Arthur a spectacular TV showcase. Like the later The Commitments, Eat the Peach deftly blends traditional sour-faced Irish pragmatism with pie-in-the-sky idealism. This time, however, there's no blarney: Eat the Peach is based on a true story! Privately financed in England and Ireland, the film earned good American bookings thanks to the sponsorship of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

Eamon Morrissey - Arthur
Stephen Brennan - Vinnie
Catherine Byrne - Nora, Vinnie's wife
Niall Toibin - Boots
Joe Lynch - Boss Murtagh

Tony Doyle - Sean Murtagh; Takashi Kawahara - Bunzo; Barbara Adair - Mrs. Fleck; Victoria Armstrong - Vicky, Vinnie's Daughter; Robert Byrne - Lookout At Border Bar; Martin Dempsey - Quiz/Master; Jill Doyle - Aileen; Don Foley - Journalist; Barry Kelley - TV Cameraman; Bernadette O'Neill - Nuala; Paul Raynor - O'Hagen; Maeliosa Stafford - Priest; Ronan Wilmot - Cahill; John Andrew Gallagher - Murtagh's Heavies; Dave Carey - Local; Akiko Hoashi - Japanese; Brian J. Hogg - Danny; Patricia Jeffares - Hospital Sister; Dick Keating - Nashville Three; Pat Kenny - TV Reporter; Kobayashi - Japanese; Edmond Lynch - TV Soundman; Jack Lynch - Man at Petrol Station; Fintan McKeown - Murtagh's Heavy; David Nolan - Murtagh's Heavy; Frank Quinlan - Nashville Three; Jim Reid - Nashville Three; Liam Sweeney - Cattle Driver; Charles Winter - Wall of Death Rider; Mark Shelley - Patrol Leader

Credit

Peter Ormrod - Director, J. Patrick Duffner - Editor, David Collins - Executive Producer, Donal Lunny - Composer (Music Score), Paul Brady - Songwriter, Toni Delaney - Makeup, David Wilson - Production Designer, Arthur Wooster - Cinematographer, John Kelleher - Producer, Josie MacAvin - Set Designer, John Kelleher - Screenwriter, Peter Ormrod - Screenwriter

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