Pete's Meteor
| Pete's Meteor | |
|---|---|
 DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Joe O'Byrne |
| Written by | Joe O'Byrne |
| Produced by | John S. Lyons Liam O'Neill |
| Starring | Brenda Fricker Alfred Molina Mike Myers |
| Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
| Edited by | Marie-Thérèse Boiché |
| Music by | Richard Hartley |
| Distributed by | KC Medien |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
Pete's Meteor is an Irish drama film released in 1998. It was written and directed by Joe O'Byrne and stars Mike Myers.
Mike Myers plays a drug dealer living in the slums of Dublin. He tries to financially provide for the three children of his dead brother. The children's lives are forever changed when a meteor crashes into their backyard. Alfred Molina plays a wealthy scientist that the children must confront to retrieve their heaven sent gift.
Production and Release
[edit]The Irish Film Board gave the filmmakers almost IR£300,000 for the production.[1]
It won the Crystal Bear Special Mention award for Best Feature Film at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival. Despite this, the film failed to find a distributor, and was released direct-to-video in the United States in December 2002.
In a 2002 profile of Myers in The Independent, the film was said to have "proved meteoric in the way it vanished from view".[2]
Reception
[edit]Christopher Null of Contactmusic.com awarded the film two stars out of five and wrote, “The story doesn't help matters, and sheer insanity is not much of a substitute for actual character development.”[3]
Nathan Rabin of The Dissolve gave the film a negative review and wrote, “It doesn’t help that the child actors deliver performances so terrible, they may actually persuade audiences to root against a trio of hard-luck orphans.” Rabin also added, “I recommend Pete’s Meteor to bad-movie aficionados.”[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Lawrence, John (12 February 2001). "Millions wasted on flick flops". Evening Herald. Dublin.
- ^ "Mike Myers: Why does everyone want to get into bed with him?". www.independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Null, Christopher. "Pete's Meteor". Contactmusic.com. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ "You Might Also Like: Mike Myers shows his maudlin side in Pete's Meteor". thedissolve.com. Archived from the original on 20 September 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
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