Small Engine Repair (2006)

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Small Engine Repair (2006)

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Song for a Raggy Boy

The Cast

Small Engine Repair is a mainstream comedy drama about a man who goes from small town zero to country and western musical hero. Director Niall Heery describes the film as a 'buddy movie'. It's a film about friendship, about...a bunch of guys whose lives haven't really worked out the way they might have hoped they would have. But...yeah, I guess it's a kind of aspiring... about a guitar teacher who has aspirations to be a Country singer, you know, and he gets a small amount of success, and it's just the way his friends deal with it."

Guitar teacher and aspiring Country singer Doug, played by Iain Glen, is an odd-job man in his 40s who is cuckolded by his wife. He is a comical character symbolising the powerlessness of any of the film's characters to act in any significant way. In Glen's own words, Doug is "quite, sort of hapless; he doesn't really know what's best for him; he's too concerned about everyone else's welfare really to consider his own and that's often, I was saying to Niall sort of quite early on; one of the real gifts of the role is that sometimes, you know, the straight people are the good people in stories are often quite neutral and quite dull; quite sort of characterless, but he's written a very you know, a very complex man I think who has many different sides to him but is basically a good soul really, he's just you know, a good soul..."

Actor, Iain Glen
Iain Glen found his love for acting while attending the University of Aberdeeen in Scotland where friends encouraged him to try out for the school's drama society. He went on to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he earned the prestigious Bancroft Gold Medal in his final year. From there he gained prominence for his work in theatre, television and film, his first roles being that of an American researcher in Kenya in the Dian Fossey biopic Gorillas in the Mist and the lover of a parliamentarian in Paris By Night (both 1988). His more recent credits include Tara Road, Kingdom of Heaven, Song for a Raggy Boy, Resident Evil, Lara Croft: Tombraider and Beautiful Creatures. He has a son, Finlay Glen.

Actor, Steven Mackintosh
Steven Mackintosh first appeared on the London stage at age 12. He went on to make his film debut in the Joe Orton biopic Prick up Your Ears (1987) as Simon Ward. Since then he has appeared in many film and television roles including The Jacket, The Mother, England Expects and Care, for which he won the BAFTA Cymru Best Actor award in 2000 and the Royal Television Society Program Award Best Actor award in 2001.

Actor, Stuart Graham
Stuart Graham has appeared in numerous theatre, television and film roles. His theatre credits include The Force of Change directed by Robert Delamare (Royal Court), The Carthiginians (Lyric Theatre), Belfast, As the Beast Sleeps directed by Conall Morrison (Abbey Theatre), and In a Little World of our Own Directed by Robert Delamare (The Foundry, Donmar Warehouse'. Among his television credits are Discovering Ancient Egypt, directed by Ferdie Fairfax, BBC; Steel River Blues Directed by Tim Dowd, Graeme Harper, ITV; The Commander III Directed by Michael Whyte (ITV); and Omagh Directed by Pete Travis, Channel 4. Some of his film credits are Song for a Raggy Boy directed by Aisling Walsh, Subotica Ent.; Misery Harbour directed by Nils Gaup, Motlys A/S; The Boxer directed by Jim Sheridan, Hell's Kitchen; Fatal Extraction directed by Colin McKeown, Besom Productions; and Michael Collins directed by Neil Jordan.

Actor, Gary Lydon
Gary was born in London but later moved to his father's hometown of Wexford in the Republic of Ireland. There he joined the Wexford Theatre Co-op, performing in plays by Sam Sheperd, Dario Fo and Joe Orton. He went on to make his London debut in 1988 playing Jimmy Brady in A Handful of Stars (1993) (TV), and went on to perform in Billy Roche's Wexford Trilogy on stage and television. He has also appeared in The Last September, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Sunday and Sinners.

Actress, Kathy Kiera Clarke
Born in Belfast, Kathy is a founder member of Marrillac Theatre Company. Her most recent theatre credits include Brilliant Traces, Low Level Panic, The Coronation Voyage and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth for Prime Cut Productions at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Kathy was nominated for the RNT/Ian Charleson Awards Best Actress for the title role of Medea for The Glasgow Citizens Theatre. Most recently she won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Ophelia in The Abbey Theatre Dublin and Lyric Belfast's production of Hamlet. Her television credits include Bernadette in the series Head Over Heals for Carlton, Una in Pulling Moves, Elizabeth Gibson in Omagh and Jennifer Gaghan in Silent Witness, all for the BBC and Sinead in the mini-series Proof 2. Her film work includes Last Legs directed by Amy Jenkins, Hard Nut, Mad About Harry, The Most Fertile Man in Ireland, and was nominated "Best Actress" at the Irish Film & TV Awards 2003 for her role in Paul Greengrass' Bloody Sunday. She played the leading role of Nicola in Solid Air.

Actor, Laurence Kinlan
Laurence Kinlan was born in Dublin. His first role was playing the lead in Alan Bleasdale's drama, Soft Sand Blue Sea for Channel 4. His film features include Angela's Ashes, Saltwater, Everlasting Piece, Last Days in Dublin, On The Nose directed by David Caffrey and Country directed by Kevin Liddy. He appeared in the series The Bill directed by Pip Broughton and was recently seen as one of the main characters in RTE's new series On Home Ground. Theatre appearances include the role of Leonard in On Such As We, directed by Wilson Milam at the Abbey Theatre. Laurence will soon appear in a major new feature film Ned Kelly as Dan Kelly alongside Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts in a Universal Pictures/Working Title production directed by Gregor Jordan. Laurence has also recently finished shooting Veronica Guerin directed by Joel Schumacher, The Halo Effect directed by Lance Daly, and Intermission directed by John Crowley. Laurence recently completed filming on two Irish feature films: 'Henry' in Boy Eats Girl directed by Stephen Bradley and 'Irwin' in Breakfast on Pluto directed by Neil Jordan.

Actor, Tom Jordan Murphy
Tom Jordan Murphy's theatre work includes 44 Sycamore (Red Kettle Theatre Co); Upstarts (Riverbank Theatre); The Hostage (Tivoli Theatre); Operation Easter (Calypso). His television and film work includes Adam and Paul (Lenny Abrahamson), The General (John Boorman); Michael Collins (Neil Jordan); The Bill (ITV); Fair City (RTE); Pure Mule (Charlie McCarthy, Declan Recks), for which he won the Best Actor in Television Award at the Irish Film and Television Awards. Also, in 1998 Tom received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role for his role in the Broadway production of Druid Theatre Company's The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

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