Pete's Meteor
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Liam O'Neill
| Pete's Meteor | |
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 DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Joe O'Byrne |
| Written by | Joe O'Byrne |
| Produced by | John S. Lyons Liam O'Neill |
| Starring | Brenda Fricker Alfred Molina Mike Myers |
| Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
| Edited by | Marie-Thérèse Boiché |
| Music by | Richard Hartley |
| Distributed by | KC Medien |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
Pete's Meteor is an Irish 1998 drama film. It was written and directed by Joe O'Byrne and stars Mike Myers.
Mike Myers plays a drug dealer living in the slums of Dublin. He tries to financially provide for the three children of his dead brother. The children's lives are forever changed when a meteor crashes into their backyard. Alfred Molina plays a wealthy scientist that the children must confront to retrieve their heaven-sent gift.
The Irish Film Board gave the filmmakers almost IR£300,000 for the production.[1]
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".[2]
