The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999)
Actors:
Richard Harvey (composer),
Zoë Wanamaker (actress),
Harriet Walter (actress),
Robert Halmi Sr. (producer),
Colm Meaney (actor),
Whoopi Goldberg (actress),
Phyllida Law (actress),
Roger Daltrey (actor),
Frank Finlay (actor),
Randy Quaid (actor),
Kevin McKidd (actor),
Tony Curran (actor),
Peter Serafinowicz (actor),
Clive Merrison (actor),
Stephen Moore (actor),
Plot: American businessman Jack Woods rents a cottage on the enchanted Emerald Isle which is occupied by a family of leprechauns. Leprechaun Seamus Muldoon's son and son's friends crash the fairies' costume ball and Muldoon's son falls in love with fairy Princess Jessica. Their love re-ignites a feud between the leprechauns and the fairies, which escalates into a war. The Grand Banshee warns of terrible consequences and Jack Woods is chosen to make peace. Woods interrupts his own romance with an Irish beauty to help, and becomes involved in a strange and wonderful magical adventure.
Keywords: advice, american, animate-tree, antidote, arrogance, ballroom-dancing, banshee, bar, battle, betrayal
Genres:
Adventure,
Comedy,
Family,
Fantasy,
Romance,
Quotes:
Sean Devine: Work is the death of freedom as we know it.
Jack Woods: You're - you're...::Seamus Muldoon: A Leprechaun. Wet Leprechaun. Leader of the Kerry Leprechauns. Seamus Maldoon, at your wet service.::Mary Muldoon: [invisible] What in the Grand Banshee's name do you think you're doing?::Seamus Muldoon: What's it look like; I'm talking to the man.::Mary Muldoon: Are you mad, as well as stupid?::Seamus Muldoon: I have to! He saved me!::Mary Muldoon: He *saved* you?::Seamus Muldoon: Gallantly, I have to say. And not at all for himself.::[Jack stumbles outside]::Mary Muldoon: [appears inside] You were drunk!::Seamus Muldoon: Of *course* I was drunk... I hate water!::Jack Woods: [cut to outside] Just calm down, Jack. Get - a grip. It's just jetlag.::Mary Muldoon: [cut to inside] And you *let* him save you?::Seamus Muldoon: I didn't ask him, Mary, he just did it!::Mary Muldoon: That's no excuse! You could have had the decency to drown!::Jack Woods: [outside]... hangover... bump on the head... You're fine.::Mary Muldoon: I'm Mary Maldoon...::Jack Woods: Oh, give me a break!::[turns, sees Leprechauns]::Mary Muldoon: ...Seamus' wife for my sins. Of which there must have been hundreds to have such a terrible fate!::Seamus Muldoon: They say that married men live longer than single ones. It only *seems* like that.
Sean Devine: [He is dying, dispappearing up to his waist] Look - I'm only half the man I was!
Seamus Muldoon: [glancing at Jack's photo of Kathleen] Ah, isn't she a magnificent woman?::Mary Muldoon: She's pretty enough - in an ugly, human kind of a way. They'd make a fine couple.::[they laugh]::Jack Woods: OK, OK, *thank* you...
Jericho O'Grady: [the Leprechauns are trapped by the palace balcony, persued by Fairies] What do we do now?::Sean Devine: [sarcastically] Try to remember how to fly.::[turns, sees Mickey floating in mid-air]::Sean Devine: Mickey!::Mickey Muldoon: I... I dunno how I'm doing it.::Sean Devine: I hate to be the one to tell you this, Mickey lad, but you're in love.::Mickey Muldoon: [vaguely] Really?::Sean Devine: Well, that's the sign.::Mickey Muldoon: Is that a fact?::Sean Devine: [the Fairies are approaching] Grab him before he comes to his senses!
Mickey Muldoon: [dreamily] I met this girl... Princess Jessica.::Seamus Muldoon: Princess Jessica - King Boric's daughter!::Mickey Muldoon: Oh, she's an angel, with the face!::Seamus Muldoon: Oh, no, no, no, no, no - listen - You leave her be! I don't want that sort of trouble! Mary Maldoon, this is your fault! Jack - will you tell him to listen to his father?::Jack Woods: Why? I never did.::Seamus Muldoon: Neither did I; that's not point!::Mary Muldoon: So he's told you, has he? You're his father, speak to him!::Seamus Muldoon: Mickey Maldoon, you listen to me: You stay away from that girl, or I'll disown you!::Mickey Muldoon: How can you disown me; you don't own anything.::Mary Muldoon: Don't speak to your father like that!::Mickey Muldoon: What, you do!::Jack Woods: That's expected - I'm his wife! And don't speak to *me* like that!::Seamus Muldoon: Yes, don't speak to her like that!::Mickey Muldoon: Well, who'm I expected to speak to like that, then?::Seamus Muldoon: Now you're speaking to me like that.::Mickey Muldoon: But she started speaking to *me* like that...::[fade]
Bert Bagnell: The race will be one circle to the track, to that there flag! And try not to cheat too much!
Jack Woods: [Seamus and Mickey appear in his buggy while he's racing] What're you doing here?::Seamus Muldoon: We thought you might like a hand.::Mickey Muldoon: Oh, don't worry, Mr. Woods, the old Leprechaun magic'll do the tirck.::Jack Woods: Great! Tell me what to do! [beat]::Seamus Muldoon: Get closer to the others!
Jack Woods: Got a father who runs a cab company, got a mother who runs my father.
Queen Morag: Don't be such a drama Fairy, Chamberlain.