Pete's Meteor (2002)
Do you believe in miracles...
Lives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids believe that it was sent down to them by their dead parents, but the government hauls the rock away and sends it to the local university.
- Date of release
- 2002-12-31
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Joe O'Byrne
Casting
- Brenda Fricker — Lily
- Alfred Molina — Hugh
- Mike Myers — Pete
- Ian Costello — Micky
- Jamie McCormack — Boy
- John Kavanagh — Sergeant Maloney
- Dervla Kirwan — Carmel
- Fiona Glascott — Mary
- Kieran Aherne — Mr. Conway
- Donncha Crowley — Gravedigger
- Ray McBride — Mr. Keane
Interesting facts
Pete's Meteor is an Irish 1998 drama film. It was written and directed by Joe O'Byrne and stars Mike Myers.
Production and Release
The Irish Film Board gave the filmmakers almost IR£300,000 for the production.
It won the Crystal Bear Special Mention award for Best Feature Film at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival. Despite this, the film failed to find a distributor, and was released direct-to-video in the United States in December 2002.
In a 2002 profile of Myers in The Independent, the film was said to have "proved meteoric in the way it vanished from view".
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