Irish Jam

Infobox Film
name = Irish Jam


caption = Promotional movie poster for the film
imdb_id = 0405052
writer = John Eyres
Max Myers
starring = Eddie Griffin
director = John Eyres
producer = Donald A. Barton,
Karinne Behr
distributor =
released = March 14, 2006
runtime =
language = English
music =
awards =
budget =

"Irish Jam" is a 2006 comedy film starring Eddie Griffin. The plot centered around 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.

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 they still had an evil aristocratic English landlord in 2006, noting it was filmed in Cornwall because "presumably, any attempts to mount stereotypes this broad in actual Ireland would lead to knee-cappings and punishment-beatings". In spite of this the film has a small popular following, although this is largely ironic.

Cast

Starring:
* Eddie Griffin as Jimmy Winston "Da Jam" McDevitt
* Anna Friel as Maureen Duffy
* Kevin R. McNally as Lord Hailstock
* Tom Georgeson as Father James Duffy
* Dudley Sutton as Pat Duffy
* Tallulah Pitt-Brown as Kathleen Duffy
* Tony Maudsley as Brian McNulty
* Marion O'Dwyer as Donna
* Vass Anderson as Mr. Pettikreep
* Petey Pablo as Jimmy's street pot customer
* and Mo'Nique as "Psycho"With:
* Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Tom Flannery
* Angus Barnett as Milos O'Shea
* James Bradshaw as Malachy McNulty
* Ray Callaghan as Doc Murphy
* Christopher Dunne as Michael O'Malley
* Nevin Finegan as Sean McNulty
* Togo Igawa as Mr. Suzuki
* Cathy Murphy as Dora
* Justin Sharp as Mocking village youth

External links

*imdb title | id=0405052 | title=Irish Jam