Episode 12

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1st Dec 2021

The Boondock Saints (1999 Future Cult Classic)

The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 features our future cult classic pick, Troy Duffy’s The Boondock Saints. Written and directed by Troy Duffy and starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Willem Dafoe and David Della Rocco, The Boondock Saints was barely released in theaters but built a cult following on home video.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Robert Koehler in Variety (https://variety.com/2000/film/reviews/boondock-saints-1117775584/), Nathan Rabin in the AV Club (https://www.avclub.com/the-boondock-saints-1798192270), and Manohla Dargis in LA Weekly (https://web.archive.org/web/20010428230512/http://www.laweekly.com/film/film_results.php3?showid=1014).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1999 installment, featuring the winner of our teen movie audience choice tournament.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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