Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. But days before their 17th birthday the balance of their world begins to shift. Pig's sexual awakening and jealousy begins to threaten their private universe.
Acting
Murphy's feral physicality announces a star.
Direction
Sheridan's debut captures suffocating teenage intensity.
Sound
Underground club scenes pulse with dangerous release.
Director
Kirsten Sheridan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Murphy and Cassidy originated their roles on stage in Enda Walsh's 1996 play, performing together for years before this film adaptation.
Disco Pigs captures pre-Celtic Tiger Cork in economic stagnation—Pig and Runt's enclosed world mirrors a country about to explode with money it didn't know how to handle.
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