The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its people, and its decline seems inexorable. When local Postie, Podger Byrnes, comes up with a plan to hijack a consignment of Viagra, and sell it on the open market in Amsterdam, his friends are desperate enough to try it. Not counting on the muscular response of Viagra's makers, the boys panic and hide the lorry load of Viagra down the town's Holy Well.
Acting
John Lynch somehow keeps his dignity intact. Mostly.
Writing
The premise is 90% of the charm. They knew it. We know it.
Director
Tom Reeve
John Lynch
Tom Gaffney
Lochlann Ó Mearáin
Donal O'Connell
Cian Barry
Sean Casey
Susan Lynch
Geraldine Gaffney
Deirdre Mullins
Kate Mulvey
Linda Hamilton
Cory Williams
Tommy Lister Jr.
SixPac Jordan
Stanley Townsend
Inspector Brian Hogan
Angeline Ball
PC Anne Mooney
Frank Dunne
Old Ned Lynch
Dermot Crowley
Father Grogan
Pascal Scott
Mihal Casey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in County Wicklow, the 'holy well' was actually a constructed set piece that locals kept asking to visit for real blessings.
This belongs to a very specific subgenre of 2000s Irish comedies where rural desperation meets criminal ineptitude—think Waking Ned Devine's less successful cousins.
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