Irish Jam

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Irish Jam
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Directed by John Eyres
Written by John Eyres
Max Myers
Produced by Donald A. Barton
Karinne Behr
Starring Eddie Griffin
Release date
  • March 14, 2006 (2006-03-14)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Irish Jam is a 2006 comedy film starring Eddie Griffin. The plot is centered on an African American who wins an Irish public house in a raffle, and has to save the village from the clutches of an evil landlord. Despite the bulk of the film being set in Ireland it was not filmed there, nor were the actors Irish, but English.

The film was poorly received in the UK. In its review of the DVD release, Empire called it a "worst possible Eddie Murphy knock-off" and questioned why would Ireland still have had an evil aristocratic English landlord in 2006.[ citation needed ]

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