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Sunshine Ukulele is a 2017 feature film from Irish director Graham Jones about a young Irish boy who receives the gift of a ukulele from his uncle and proceeds upon a comic, suburban, mini-odyssey in which he struggles to properly identify with the nineteenth century instrument. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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References

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