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Directed by Brendan J. Byrne
Produced by Michael Beattie

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Did you hear the one about the Greatest Actor of the 20th Century, the small Irish village and the film that never was? No, few have.

In the summer of 1995 a cavalcade of Hollywood's A-list descended on the East Cork town of Ballycotton for what would become possibly the most absurd movie disaster ever to befoul Irish soil.

Despite the presence of Johnny Depp, John Hurt, Debra Winger and the ebullient Marlon Brando, the shooting of the blockbuster black comedy 'Divine Rapture' quickly garnered howls of mirth and misery in equal measure from the residents of the village. What began as a sparkling courtship, with the locals and movie stars downing pints and the whole village set to cash in, soon ended in bitter bemusement as the film deteriorated into a financial fiasco.

Overnight the stars up and vanished like the proverbial thieves; rented limos were abandoned in the streets; bills were left unpaid; and for a stupendously unfunny punchline news leaked out that for two days the production had been shooting without any film in the camera.

So what went wrong? Why did the movie's funding fall through? And why was Brando wandering round the village in a bright orange wig?

A decade on, the villagers and producers recollect the madness and the heartbreak of Ballycotton's boulevard of broken dreams.