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Waking Ned, titled Waking Ned Devine in North America, is a 1998 Irish comedy starring Ian Bannen, David Kelly and Fionnula Flanagan.

David Kelly was nominated for a Screen Actors' Guild award for his role in Waking Ned.

Shaun Davey wrote the film score for Waking Ned Devine.

The film was shot in and around the village of Cregneash and other locations on the Isle of Man.

Plot

When word reaches Jackie and Michael, two elderly best friends that someone in their tiny Irish village of Tully More has won the national lottery, they go to great lengths to find the winner so they can share the wealth. After a chicken-dinner plot to narrow down their list of suspects, they pay a midnight visit to the only absentee: Ned Devine. They find Ned in his home, still holding the ticket in his hand, a smile on his face and dead of shock. Jackie is later convinced by a dream that the deceased Ned wants to share the winnings. After discovering that the winnings are far greater than anticipated, Jackie and Michael are forced to involve the entire village in order to fool the claim inspector. The villagers enter a pact to pretend that Ned is alive and well, by having Michael pose as him. However, one villager decides not to enter the pact and attempts to blackmail the entire village by reporting the fraud and winning ten percent of the lottery share. However, later in the story she dies in a car accident and the money is shared amongst the villagers.

Trivia

An example of a visual error occurs in Waking Ned Devine, when two of the film's major characters, Jackie (Bannen) and Michael (Kelly), are walking through a storm toward the winner's house. The umbrella they are under is black during their conversation as they walk towards the house (filmed from slightly above and to the front); yet after cutting to a lower shot (filmed from behind Jackie), Michael walks onscreen from the right holding an umbrella that is not black but beige, with a brown band at the rim.

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