Cardboard Gangsters (2017)
Take back what's yours
A group of young Cardboard Gangsters attempt to gain control of the drug trade in Darndale, chasing the glorified lifestyle of money, power and sex.
- Date of release
- 2017-04-22
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (34)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Mark O'Connor
Casting
- John Connors — Jason Connolly
- Fionn Walton — Dano
- Kierston Wareing — Kim Murphy
- Jimmy Smallhorne — Derra Murphy
- Paul Alwright — Glenner
- Alan Clinch — Whacker
- Stephen Clinch — Ross Kelly
- John Dalessandro — Lukey
- Gemma-Leah Devereux — Roisin
- Kyle Bradley Donaldson — Stephen Kelly
- Damien Dempsey — Curley Murphy
- Ryan Lincoln — Cobbie
Interesting facts
Cardboard Gangsters is a 2017 Irish crime film set in Darndale, Coolock, Dublin. It was funded by Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
Production
John Connors wrote the original script for the film and asked Mark O'Connor. who he had previously worked with on Stalker and King of the Travellers to come on the project as a Director. O'Connor agreed to direct the film if he could do a re-write of the script, which Connors agreed to. The film was shot in Darndale.
Connors was friends with several local Dublin rappers, such as Lethal Dialect and God Creative, who agreed for their music to be used in the films score. The film's entire budget (€300,000) was funded by the BAI's Sound and Vision Fund in 2016.
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