Frank Kelly Movies

Ted (Dermot Morgan), Dougal (Ardal O'Hanlon), and their visitor Father José Fernandez (Derrick Branche) play the longest-ever game of Scrabble. Before Fernandez leaves, he presents the Fathers with a bizarre phallic sculpture and a VCR as gifts. Bishop Brennan (Jim Norton) arrives with a task for the Fathers: they must protest a pornographic movie at the local cinema. Thanks to the publicity their protest generates, the movie breaks all sorts of box-office records. An enraged Brennan returns with seedy, dangerous new parish assignments for the Fathers, but luckily Jack (Frank Kelly) saves the day with a stolen videotape that highlights rather extreme vow-breaking activities on the part of Brennan. It would seem that there's a Bishop Brennan Jr. ~ Tim DiGravina, Rovi

A visiting nun points out to the Fathers that the "very drunk" Jack (Frank Kelly) is actually quite dead. Jack's old friends reminisce about his life and times, with one elderly priest violently lamenting about how Jack should have been anointed Pope. When Jack's will is read, Ted (Dermot Morgan) and Dougal (Ardal O'Hanlon) learn that they will inherit a huge sum of money, with the sole requirement that they spend the night before Jack's burial with his body, because Jack always feared that he'd be buried alive. Dreaming of their new riches, attempting a game of charades, and reflecting on the afterlife, the Fathers settle in for their night watching over Jack's body. But there's one problem, because Jack pulls a Lazarus out of his hat. ~ Tim DiGravina, Rovi

The annoyingly quiet Father Paul Stone (Michael Redmond) is staying at the Craggy Island parish, and there's no sign that he's ever going to leave. Ted (Dermot Morgan) and Dougal (Ardal O'Hanlon) are going nuts from trying to communicate with Stone, so they unsuccessfully try a number of schemes to get him packing. Shortly after Ted asks God for help, a lightning bolt streaks from the sky and renders Stone comatose. Feeling guilty, especially after meeting with Stone's family, Ted makes bargains with God, suggesting that Stone might stay in Craggy Island for as long as he likes, as long as he's restored to his usual "wall with a mustache" self. After Stone has a miraculous recovery, it looks like the Fathers will be spending lots of quality time with their visitor. ~ Tim DiGravina, Rovi

Rival groups of boys from two neighboring Irish villages engage in a running battle in this remake of the 1962 French movie of the same name, based on a novel by Louis Pergaud. The boys from Ballydowse, who dress as they please, exchange insults with boys from nearby Carricksdowse -- who wear school uniforms. One day, the Bally gang cuts the buttons off the clothes of a bully in the Carricks gang. The Carricks retaliate by swiping the buttons from the clothes of the leader of the Bally boys, Fergus (Gregg Fitzgerald). The Ballys deface the Carricksdowse church, though both groups are Catholics. They rout the Carricks by charging at them naked. Marie (Eveanna Ryan), who heads the Ballys' girls auxiliary, tries to calm down the boys by raining new buttons on them to replace those lost in warfare. When Fergus' abusive stepfather (Jim Bartley) finds out about the war, he beats Fergus and sends him away. Fergus goes to the cliffs along the valley between the two villages, chased by the Carricks' leader, Geronimo (John Coffey). Geronimo, who has come to help, slips, and Fergus rescues him from a fall. In the end, Fergus, riding a horse, leads his troops, dressed in motley medieval suits, into a final battle. The allegorical anti-war film is primarily aimed at children. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi

This melodrama is set in Ireland and follows bill collector and karate master Taffin as he and other try to keep a soccer field from being destroyed by developers. Soon he finds himself involved in a sticky web of blackmail, political corruption and murder all precipitated by the avarice of a major chemical company. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi