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I Went Down (1997)

I Went Down poster
Directed by
Paddy Breathnach
Genre
crime film
Country
Ireland
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
R
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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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.

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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)

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