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starstarstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstarstar Derek Elley - Variety
starstarstar Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Stephen Hunter - Washington Post
starstarstar Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar G. Allen Johnson - SF Examiner
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Elizabeth Weitzman - Film.com

“Proves that laughter and smiles can be coaxed out of the old moves if they’re done with deftness and panache”

- Kenneth Turan

“The movie, working its whimsy at a fever pitch, seems so determined to become a hit it completely forgets about needing a heart”

- Elizabeth Weitzman

Waking Ned Devine
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Comedy about a tiny Irish village  turned upside-down when a denizen wins the lottery. Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, James Nesbitt, Susan Lynch, Eileen Dromey, Robert Hickey, Maura O'Malley, Fintan McKeown, Brendan F. Dempsey, Dermot Kerrigan, Jimmy Keogh. Director: Kirk Jones (1998, PG)
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