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Synopsis: Inspired by the true story of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, The Young Offenders is a comedy road movie about best friends Conor and Jock, two inner-city teenagers from Cork who dress the same, act the same, and even have the same bum-fluff mustaches. Jock is a legendary bike thief who plays a daily game of cat-and-mouse with the bike-theft-obsessed Garda Sergeant Healy. When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork and 61 bales of cocaine, each worth 7 million euro, are seized, word gets out that there is a bale missing. The boys steal two bikes and go on a road trip hoping to find a missing bale which they can sell so as to escape their troubled home lives....But Sergeant Healy is in hot pursuit.
Director(s): Peter Foott
Production: Vico Films
  11 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
2016
83 min
$384,882
1,833 Views


That's a good one!

Your mam's hilarious!

Aye, she's always

having a craic with you.

I know, but it's brilliant,

isn't it?

If you're gonna mindlessly

mimic someone,

could you at least pick someone

who's got half a f***ing brain?

Alright, mate?

Up yours, Mrs MacSweeney.

I hope you have a sh*t day.

Mam's always going on about

me mimicking Jock.

I mean, yeah, we have

similar haircuts,

but that's just the fashion.

Aside from that, we have our

own individual sh*t going on.

Jock's always coming up with

interesting things to do,

like...

Just got hold of

100 smoke bombs.

Wanna let 'em off in school?

And this was the best one yet.

That means that one bale

is worth 7 million euros.

- 7 million?!

- Each one, yeah!

Do you know how many zeros

that is after 7 million?

Hundreds!

Yeah, f***ing thousands of

zeros! It's so much money!

Ah, but what if

we get caught, though?

Do you not know the rules

that govern this country?

What?

When the forefathers

founded our country.

- Who were they?

- The forefathers.

Uh, St Patrick, St Brigid...

I dunno. Why are you asking me

these questions, like?

Ask the teacher that.

Basically, when our forefathers

founded this country, yeah,

they made rules, like

if you're younger than 16,

you're classified

as a young offender

which basically means

you can't get in trouble.

- So, we're just off the hook?

- For some reason,

they thought our brains

weren't developed enough,

that we wouldn't know

what we were doing or something.

- I know, stupid, isn't it?

- Spastics!

It's basically like

a get-out-of-jail-free card.

I'm trying to find something

wrong with your plan.

It's perfect. Think how easy

it'd be to find a bale as well.

Think how good you are

at finding stuff.

If I was looking for stuff...

stuff'll be found.

This time tomorrow,

we could be millionaires, like.

This is where we are, yeah?

That's you, that's me.

And this is where the cocaine

went overboard.

Jeez, boy,

that's f***ing miles away!

No, it's not, it's like that.

You do know it's not

actually that far, like.

I know that.

I know how maps work.

I'll nick us a couple of bikes,

we leave first thing

in the morning.

Uh, can we go the day after?

No, it has to be tomorrow.

The guards'll have it found

if we leave any later.

I have to cover Mam in the shop.

She's getting her tooth pulled.

You're actually telling me that

you're not gonna go get

7 million euros

'cause you're gonna work

in the fish shop for the day?

You could have everything

you ever wanted.

Mansions, cars, caves and tits.

I know, right,

but I promised her.

What excuse am I meant to give?

"Me and Jock are heading

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Peter Foott

Peter Foott (born September 29, 1976) is an award-winning Irish director, producer and screenwriter known for his work on The Young Offenders. more…

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