6 Movies Directed by Paul McGuigan

The Acid House

The Acid House

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-01-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (5557 Reviews)

Director:

Paul McGuigan

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Irvine Welsh (screenplay)

Irvine Welsh (stories)

Fullplot:

Three twisted tales from the seamy side of Scotland and the mind of Irvine Welsh. The Granton Star Cause: in the same day a young Leith lad is dumped by his football team, his girlfriend and his parents, arrested and beaten up by the police and turned into a fly by God, whom he meets in a pub. The Soft Touch: a man is too soft to do anything when his wife moves in with the thug upstairs. The Acid House: while tripping on acid, Coco Bryce is struck by lightning, causing him to switch bodies with a newborn baby.

Gangster No. 1

Gangster No. 1

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-06-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Germany, Ireland

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (10576 Reviews)

Director:

Paul McGuigan

Cast:

Writer:

Johnny Ferguson (screenplay)

Louis Mellis (original screenplay)

David Scinto (original screenplay)

Fullplot:

A middle-aged crime boss smugly reflects back from 1999, narrating the brutality which made him triumphant - and feared. As an unnamed young hood in Swinging 60's London, he aped his mod boss Freddie Mays, and seemed to do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie's supremacy, and especially his tall bird. The baby shark develops his viciousness and backstabbing, scheming to be Gangster No. 1.

The Reckoning

The Reckoning

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-06-04

Languages:

English, Latin

Countries:

UK, Spain

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (4790 Reviews)

Director:

Paul McGuigan

Cast:

Writer:

Barry Unsworth (novel)

Mark Mills (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 14th-century England, a young monk breaks his vow of chastity and flees the wrath of his bishop and fellow monks. A fugitive priest, he then witnesses the murder of a traveling performer--and subsequently, the mourning of actor by his fellow troupe members. He eventually becomes initiated into the troupe as a player, replacing the murdered man. They travel from town to town performing their standard morality play. They arrive in a town where a boy has been killed and a young deaf-mute girl has been imprisoned for the crime--sentenced to death for witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover that the townspeople know the young woman did not, in fact, commit the murder. The stage becomes a place where vital human truth is told. Thus, simultaneously, the fugitive priest comes to terms with his own crime and makes a powerful sacrifice, thereby redeeming himself.

Wicker Park

Wicker Park

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-09-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(42604 Reviews)

Director:

Paul McGuigan

Cast:

Writer:

Gilles Mimouni (film L'Appartement)

Brandon Boyce (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day. With a little help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another young woman calling herself Lisa whom, unknown to Matthew, is an actress named Alex and may hold the key to Lisa's disappearance, and discovery.

Lucky Number Slevin

Lucky Number Slevin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-04-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (246744 Reviews)

Director:

Paul McGuigan

Fullplot:

In an airport waiting room, a man in a wheelchair tells a stranger a story about a fixed horse race in 1979 that resulted in a family's deaths. In Manhattan, two bookies and the son of a Mob boss die. A young man just out of the shower answers the door to a neighbor woman and explains that he's visiting, has had a bad week, including being mugged, and doesn't know where his pal, who lives there, is. The neighbor is chatty; she's a coroner. Two thugs arrive and, believing the visitor to be the guy who lives there, take him to see the boss with the dead son, who tells him to kill the son of his Mob rival. Mistaken identity? What connects the threads? Cops are watching.

Push

Push

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-02-06

Languages:

English, Cantonese

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (85694 Reviews)

Director:

Paul McGuigan

Fullplot:

A group of young American ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities are hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency. They must utilize their different talents and band together for a final job enabling them to escape the agency forever.

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