Spin the Bottle

2003
1h 30m

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Michael McElhatton in Spin the Bottle (2003)

Rats is released from prison and needs to make some money--fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence: neither his mother nor his former bandmates have time for... Read allRats is released from prison and needs to make some money--fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence: neither his mother nor his former bandmates have time for him anymore He wishes to help donate towards his obese aunty's trip to Lourdes. He strugg... Read allRats is released from prison and needs to make some money--fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence: neither his mother nor his former bandmates have time for him anymore He wishes to help donate towards his obese aunty's trip to Lourdes. He struggles to find a job, but he never fails to land himself in another difficult situation.

Director
- Ian Fitzgibbon
Writers
- Ian Fitzgibbon
- Michael McElhatton
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6.2/10

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Director
- Ian Fitzgibbon
Writers
- Ian Fitzgibbon
- Michael McElhatton
Stars

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Awards
- 3 wins & 6 nominations total

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Pegcafferty

Fabulously entertaining comedy

"Spin the bottle" is hilarious! This comedic script is brilliantly acted as well as directed.From the satirical spin on boy bands to the insane journey of Rats and his employment capers, I was laughing throughout the film. "Spin the bottle" is brilliant!

9rochfordsimon

Classic Irish Comedy.

Brilliant and underrated Irish television Mockumentary. 20 years old now, but really holds up. Great characters and story.

9aaronkavo-1

Deadly!

This movie is funny as anything! Now, non-Irish, I think will hate this. Nobody but us Irish will like. I think, mainly, Dublin people will like it the most because we can relate to it the most. I think culchies might like it also, but won't relate to us like us. Maybe culchies will hate it because they make fun of them. It also makes fun of people from Northern Ireland. It's all in good fun, however. I like to see and Irish movie for Dubliners, seeing as most of them are made for culchies and Dubliners hate them. This time the shoes on the other foot! Anyway, Dubliners, check it out. Anyone else, stay away! However, if you do think of watching it, you might learn some Dublin words!

8fimcdee

A great laugh!

I thought this movie was brilliant. If you were a fan of Paths to Freedom you'll love the comedy in this.

It was done on a low budget so obviously it's not as polished as most other productions, but with what they had it is definitely a cult Irish classic.

The lyrics of the songs featured in it are hilarious, but it definitely would not translate very well to a non-Irish audience. "You cultchie gaurds think you can come up here and act like narmal (sic) people!!"

And the cameo roles are great with Louis Walsh, Gerry Ryan and Miriam Callaghan really sending themselves up.

1atomicb

Terrible!

This film is in it's own words "terrible rubbish"

If you liked Paths to Freedom and though it had original ideas, good acting and dialogue - then feel free to go along and waste your money.

They wondered why the Irish film board didn't want to give them money! I wonder what made them change their mind and fund it eventually - it couldn't be that they changed their mind on it 'not being funny'.

If you like 'funny walks', bad acting, crap dialogue, stupid stories or feel like losing 90 minutes of your life - then this is yer man!

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Trivia
When Michael McElhatton was researching the prison scenes for this film he went to one of Ireland's Prisons. While he was there he met prisoners who were huge fans of the series Paths to Freedom (2000) in which Rats first appeared. Some of the prisoners had taken the character of Rats to their hearts that they wrote some of Rats' sayings on their cell walls.

Crazy credits
In the closing credits, Peter McDonald's character name was spelled "Tommo" in the "Starring" section and "Tomo" in the full cast list which follows it.