Due to the current weather warning in place, King Frankie will be postponed. The film will be rescheduled for another date. All tickets will remain valid for the revised screening date,which will be confirmed shortly. For those unavailable on the new date, tickets can be refunded. We apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
During the Celtic Tiger years,Frankie was a successful, wealthy and ostentatious businessman. After losing almost everything in the economic collapse, he now lives a quiet life operating a small taxi firm and has had to move back into his parents’ home. When Frankie’s father passes away, old friends and acquaintances gather for the funeral. Seeing those familiar faces forces Frankie to finally reckon with the lingering trauma of the day everything fell apart.Dermot Malone’s debut feature is a probing yet warm character study split between two strikingly different moments in its protagonist’s life. Love/Hate star Peter Coonan excels as the troubled yet sympathetic Frankie, alongside a talented supporting cast that includes Owen Roe, Olivia Caffrey and Ruairi O’Connor
DIRECTOR: Dermot Malone
Lenght 94 mins, Cert 15A
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“A nervy, tension-fuelled melodrama with big themes and a bigger heart… [Coonan is] terrifichere”-Chris Wasser, The Irish Independent
“Malone shows a sure touch with his actors. Coonan makes Frankie a sympathetic figure; all flashing teeth, simmering rage and desperation in the past, he becomes a much more humble figure with age”-Allan Hunter, Screen Daily