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Disco Pigs

Disco Pigs

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Disco Pigs

"90 minutes you'll never forget."

2001

1h 33m

5.7(75 votes)

Drama

Romance

Crime

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.

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Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

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

Tara Lynne O'Neill

Tara Lynne O'Neill

Mags

Eoghan Harris

Mr Keane

Marie Mullen

Marie Mullen

Mrs Monroe

Michael Rawley

Foxy

Creative team

Directed by: Kirsten Sheridan
Written by: Enda Walsh
Produced by: Ed Guiney

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