Celtic Pride

1996
PG-13
1h 31m

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5.3/10

11K

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Dan Aykroyd, Damon Wayans, and Daniel Stern in Celtic Pride (1996)

Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.

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Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.

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IMDb RATING

5.3/10

11K

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Trivia
One of two films that writer/director Judd Apatow wrote the screenplay for in 1996. The other was The Cable Guy starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick which he fought hard to get credit in a battle with the WGA after rewriting the majority of the script for both Carrey and director Ben Stiller. He still got a producer's credit despite it.

Goofs
After badly spraining his right ankle in the one-on-one game with Lewis, Mike goes to see his wife and can barely walk up the stairs. In a subsequent shot while they are all at the dinner table, a long shot shows Mike vividly bouncing his right leg on the ball of his foot showing no signs of the injury, impossible to do without immense pain.

Quotes
[Nick the landlord wants the rent]
Mike O'Hara: Write a check.
Jimmy Flaherty: It'll bounce.
Mike O'Hara: Write it anyway.

Crazy credits
After the credits, the Boston Garden is demolished. (This is a special effect; at the time the movie was released, the real Garden was still standing.)

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Getting Away with Murder/James and the Giant Peach/Jane Eyre/Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy/Ghost in the Shell (1996)

Soundtracks
MacNamara's Band
Written by Shamus O'Connor and John J. Stamford

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Entertaining effort, non-sports fans be cautious.

Two die-hard Boston Celtic fans go out of their way to mess up the star player before game 7 of the Finals, and then accidently kidnap him. Not deep, but it doesn't have to be.

A movie that a good sports fan would find as humorous, but a movie fan would only find forgetable. Akroyd, Stern, and Wayans all turn in entertaining performances, but the true star of the movie is....

Christopher McDonald. He made me laugh my head off with the "Uhhhhhhh I hate my life" line. Akroyd doing the "Shakacon" thing was hillarious, as was his dream.

Overall, it was enjoyable, but proceed with caution.

***+(3.5)/*****(5).