I Went Down (1997)

Directed by

Paddy Breathnach

Genre

crime film

Country

Ireland

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man just out of prison gets caught up with a local crime boss to settle his friend's debts. He is sent on a road trip to Cork to track down a missing gangster.

quirkywryroad-tripoffbeatdarkly comicgrittybittersweetunderstated

What happens

I Went Down is a 1997 Irish crime comedy film by director Paddy Breathnach. The film is initially set in Dublin. A working class man is released from prison, and soon rescues his best friend from mutilation at the hands of mobsters. The local crime boss decides that the man has to pay for his friend's gambling debts, and tasks him with locating and retrieving a missing associate of the crime boss in Cork. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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