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Disco Pigs

Disco Pigs

90 minutes you'll never forget.

20015.71h 33m

Overview

Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. But days before their 17th birthday the balance of their world begins to shift. Pig's sexual awakening and jealousy begins to threaten their private universe.

Directed by Kirsten Sheridan
Written by Enda Walsh
Produced by Ed Guiney
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Top Cast

Elaine Cassidy

Elaine Cassidy

Runt / Sinead

Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy

Pig / Darren

Brían F. O'Byrne

Brían F. O'Byrne

Gerry

Eleanor Methven

Eleanor Methven

Bernie

Geraldine O'Rawe

Geraldine O'Rawe

Eileen

Darren Healy

Darren Healy

Marky

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Tara Lynne O'Neill

Mags

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Eoghan Harris

Mr Keane

Marie Mullen

Marie Mullen

Mrs Monroe

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Michael Rawley

Foxy

Themes & Keywords

woman directordisturbeddetachedaggressivedrearyintimateprovocativetensedepressingbitterdefiantpessimistic

About Disco Pigs

Disco Pigs is a drama, romance, crime film released in 2001 exploring themes of woman director, disturbed, detached, aggressive, dreary, intimate. Directed by Kirsten Sheridan, it stars Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Brían F. O'Byrne. Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. But days before their 17th birthday the balance of their world begins to shift. Pig's sexual awakening and jealousy begins to threaten their private universe.

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