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{{quote|''"And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee.''
''Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command.''
''So we shall flow a river forth to Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be,''
''In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti."''
|Connor and Murphy MacManus, delivering the family prayer before executing someone.}}
'''''The Boondock Saints''''' was an independent film directed by Troy Duffy in 1999 about two [[Oireland|Irish Catholic]] brothers from [[Southies|South Boston]], Connor and Murphy MacManus (played by Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus), who become [[Vigilante Man|vigilantes]] on a "[[Mission from God]]" after they are almost killed by Russian mobsters following a barroom brawl on St. Patrick's Day.
The brothers kill the mobsters and then turn themselves into the police, though they are quickly released on their self-defense plea. They learn the location of the syndicate's leaders, then kill them all. They are quickly joined by their best friend David Della Rocco (played by an actor who [[The Danza|shares the name]]), a package boy for the local Italian mafia, who enlists their help in taking down his former syndicate after he is sold out by his bosses Papa Joe and Vincenzo.
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Everything comes to a head when the Italians, tired of being picked off like flies, call in the mysterious hitman Il Duce (played by comedian Billy Connolly in one of his rare dramatic roles) to kill Rocco, who they believe is responsible for the killings. When the three Saints and the Duke collide, all hell quickly breaks loose; and when it is finally learned just who Il Duce is, the stage is set for a final reckoning that will bring the South Boston mob to its knees.
''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 then-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.
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