There are good stag movies and there are bad stag movies, as is the case with every genre, but there is always something funny that happens in a stag movie that I can laugh about, that is almost a guarantee. For my US friends, a stag is the same thing as a bachelor party except every time I see a stag party there tends to be a group of guys in matching shirts embarrassing the man of the night, something I’m always for.
Set to hit theaters abroad this year is the Irish comedy The Stag, helmed by first time feature film director John Butler. The film stars a lot of familiar faces from British film and television like Brian Gleeson and Andrew Scott (Sherlock) and supposedly the film is actually quite entertaining even if the mildly entertaining trailer below seems run-of-the-mill.
Below is the full synopsis and trailer for the comedy. Let us know what you think and if you happen to live in Ireland or the UK let us know how the film is.
Self-confessed metrosexual Fionan (Hugh O’Conor) doesn’t want a Stag Do, but would happily attend the Hen. His concerned bride-to-be Ruth (Amy Huberman) persuades the marginally more macho best man Davin (Andrew Scott) to organise one. Reluctantly he agrees, while doing everything he can to stop Ruth’s infamously alpha male brother, known only as ‘The Machine’ (Peter McDonald), gatecrashing their sober, walking-weekend, excuse for a Stag Party. Not so easily foxed, ‘The Machine’ tracks them down, sparking to life a wild few days in rural Ireland where the Stags find themselves lost, shot at, stoned and butt-naked. THE STAG is a hilarious and heart-warming journey of friendship, fear, male bonding, and tightly fashioned squirrel skin!
Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock and Legacy) leads a fresh ensemble cast of rising Irish and British stage, screen and comedy stars including Hugh O’Conor (The Young Poisoner’s Handbook, My Left Foot), Brian Gleeson (Snow White and the Huntsman, The Eagle of the Ninth), Andrew Bennett (Angela’s Ashes), Michael Legge (Channel 4’s Shameless) and Amy Huberman (Comedy Central’s Threesome).
Award-winning writer/director John Butler (RTE’s award winning sketch show Your Bad Self, debut novel The Tenderloin) makes his feature directing debut with this hilarious and touching comedy about male friendship – developed and co-written with actor/writer Peter McDonald (I Went Down, When Brendan Met Trudy), and produced by Rebecca O’Flanagan and Rob Walpole (The Good Man).
via Twitch
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