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KNEECAP

  • 2024
  • 1 HR, 42 min
  • SEP 21 → OCT 3, 2024
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Released August 2, 2024, Ireland
Comedy, Drama, Music
1 hour, 42 minutes
Sony Pictures Classics
Irish with English subtitles
Starring
  • Móglaí Bap
  • Mo Chara
  • DJ Próvai
  • Josie Walker
  • Fionnuala Flaherty
  • Michael Fassbender
Director

Rich Peppiatt

Film Information

When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries & politicians trying to silence their defiant sound – whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic KNEECAP play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.

Full Cast
Móglaí Bap
Mo Chara
DJ Próvai
Josie Walker
Fionnuala Flaherty
Michael Fassbender
Additional Credits
Rich Peppiatt Director

Reviews

“Music-filled and spikily edited, KNEECAP finds rude wit and edge to underscore its needle-drop righteousness; that it sustains its level so exuberantly is remarkable, especially considering how hit-and-miss these self-mythologizing projects often are.”

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times

“A meta-contextual music-world biopic whose success relies upon one giant bet paying off big, the new comedy Kneecap is a riotous delight that will have even the most staid audiences ready to flip the bird.”

Barry Hertz
Globe and Mail

“Bursting with unruly energy that practically escapes the confines of the screen, KNEECAP is a riotous, drug-laced triumph in the name of freedom that bridges political substance and crowd-pleasing entertainment.”

Carlos Aguilar
Variety

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