The Boondock Saints
Overview
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 American action
Action film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...

 comedy film written and directed by Troy Duffy
Troy Duffy
Troy Duffy is an American director, screenwriter and musician. He has directed two films, The Boondock Saints, and its sequel, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.-Movie career:...

. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery
Sean Patrick Flanery
Sean Patrick Flanery is an American actor known for such roles as Connor MacManus in The Boondock Saints, Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone and for portraying Indiana Jones in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as Bobby Dagen in Saw 3D.He is currently known for his role as Sam Gibson on The...

 and Norman Reedus
Norman Reedus
Norman Mark Reedus is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal as Murphy MacManus in the 1999 film The Boondock Saints as well as its 2009 sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day and for the character of Daryl Dixon in the AMC television series The Walking Dead...

 as Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 fraternal twins, Connor and Murphy MacManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia
Russian Mafia
The Russian Mafia is a name applied to organized crime syndicates in Russia and Ukraine. The mafia in various countries take the name of the country, as for example the Ukrainian mafia....

 in self-defense. After both experience an epiphany
Epiphany (feeling)
An epiphany is the sudden realization or comprehension of the essence or meaning of something...

, the brothers, together with their friend (David Della Rocco
David Della Rocco
David Della Rocco is an Italian-American comedian and actor best known for his supporting role in the 1999 film The Boondock Saints...

), set out to rid their home city of Boston, Massachusetts of crime and evil; all the while being pursued by FBI Special Agent
Special agent
Special agent is usually the title for a detective or investigator for a state, county, municipal, federal or tribal government. An agent is a worker for any federal agency, and a secret agent is one who works for an intelligence agency....

 Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group...

).

Duffy indicates that the screenplay was inspired by personal experience
Personal experience
Personal experience of a human being is the moment-to-moment experience and sensory awareness of internal and external events.-History:An early belief of some philosophers of Ancient Greece was that the mind was like a recording device and simply kept somehow-objective records of what the senses...

, while living in Los Angeles.
Quotations

[After a lesbian co-worker takes offense at his mention of Rule of thumbOrigin of the phrase|rule of thumb] Can't do much damage with that thing, can we? Perhaps it should have been the rule of wrist.

Television. Television is the explanation for this! You see this in bad television. The little assault guys creeping through the vents, coming in through the ceiling. That James Bond shit never happens in real life. Professionals don't do that!

You Irish cops are perking up. That's two sound theories in one day, neither of which deal with abnormally-sized men. Kinda makes me feel like Riverdancing. [begins dancing]

There was a Firefight!

[Family prayer] And Shepherds we shall be, for Thee my lord for Thee.Power hath descended forth from Thy hand,that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command.So we shall flow a river forth to Thee,and teeming with souls shall it ever be.In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.(In The Name Of The Father, The Son, And The Holy Ghost)

 
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