Pete's Meteor | |
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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]
Christopher Null of Contactmusic.com awarded the film two stars out of five and wrote, “The story doesn't help matters, and sheer insanity is not much of a substitute for actual character development.” [3]
Nathan Rabin of The Dissolve gave the film a negative review and wrote, “It doesn’t help that the child actors deliver performances so terrible, they may actually persuade audiences to root against a trio of hard-luck orphans.” Rabin also added, “I recommend Pete’s Meteor to bad-movie aficionados.” [4]
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