Divine Rapture is an uncompleted film that had been cast in 1995 with Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St...

, Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol...

, Debra Winger

Debra Winger

Mary Debra Winger is an American actress. Three-times an Oscar nominee, she received awards for acting in Terms of Endearment, for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress in 1983, and in A Dangerous Woman, for which she won the Tokyo International Film Festival...

 and John Hurt

John Hurt

John Vincent Hurt, CBE is an English actor, known for his leading roles as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal, Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and An Englishman in New York...

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Background

Divine Rapture is the story of a set of miracles in a small 1950's Irish community. The small Irish town of Ballycotton

Ballycotton

Ballycotton is a village in County Cork, Ireland, situated about 25 miles east of Cork city. It is a famous fishing village and has given its name to the folk band Ballycotton. The village is set on a rocky-ledge overlooking Ballycotton Bay and its sandy beach that stretches for about...

 in County Cork

County Cork

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 where filming took place on it in the summer of 1995 expected to generate significant revenue during filming. Two weeks into production, however, the filming stopped abruptly as the escrow account for the production company

Production company

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, CineFin, was found to be non-existent. Only 24 minutes of actual film footage had been shot.

Documentary

In 2009, Hot Shot Films produced the documentary "Ballybrando" recounting the story with interviews of cast, crew and production team and including producer Barry Navidi who had worked for six years to get "Divine Rapture" made. The documentary also includes scenes from the film itself. A headstone stands in Ballycotton's Main Street erected by local potter, Stephen Pearce, marking the event. It reads "'Divine Rapture born 10th July 1995, died 23rd July 1995, RIP". "Ballybrando" ends with the news that Navidi is reworking the script under a new title, "Holy Mackerel", and that he hopes to film it in Ireland, yet again.