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''The Boondock Saints'' ran for all of a week in only a few theaters because no major distributor would touch the film after Duffy's falling out with his initial executive producer Harvey Weinstein. (The recent crackdown on violent action and horror movies and media in general following the school shooting at [[Columbine]] High School earlier that year [[Too Soon|didn't help things either]].) But when it was released several years later on FOX DVD, the movie became a ''massive'' [[Cult Classic|cult success]]. Fans compare the film to [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s classics ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' and ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', and [[Robert Rodriguez]]'s ''[[Desperado]]''. A sequel called ''The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day'' was rumored for years (the first film ends on one hell of a cliffhanger) and was finally released on October 30, 2009.
The film ''Overnight'' details Troy Duffy's [[Small Name, Big Ego|inflation of ego]] during the making of the film. He kinda [[Prima Donna Director|went off the rails]], a bit. While he has tried to [https://web.archive.org/web/20101018191133/http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/28/the-filmcast-interview-troy-duffy-director-of-the-boondock-saints-2-all-saints-day/ apologize for his past behavior], if you watch the doc you'll get a better idea of why we had to wait ''ten years'' for the sequel.
It is especially popular for St. Paddy's Day drinking games, where if you sip every time someone curses, you're hammered by 30 minutes in. Because of this, some people have never seen the whole movie, nor seen it sober.
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