Ordinary Decent Criminal

For the slang expression, see Ordinary Decent Criminal (slang).

Ordinary Decent Criminal
DVD case cover for Ordinary Decent Criminal
Directed byThaddeus O'Sullivan
Written byGerard Stembridge
Produced byJonathan Cavendish
Starring
CinematographyAndrew Dunn
Edited byWilliam M. Anderson
Music byDamon Albarn
Production
companies
River Road Entertainment
Tat Film
Little Bird
Trigger Street Productions
Distributed byIcon Film Distribution (Ireland/United Kingdom)
Buena Vista Home Entertainment[a] (United States)
Icon Entertainment International[3] (International)
Release dates
  • 7 January 2000 (2000-01-07) (Ireland)
  • 17 March 2000 (2000-03-17) (U.K.[1])
  • 21 January 2003 (2003-01-21) (U.S.)
Running time
93 minutes
Countries
  • Ireland
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom
  • United States [2]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10 million[4][5]

Ordinary Decent Criminal is a 2000 crime comedy film, directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, written by Gerard Stembridge, and stars Kevin Spacey and Linda Fiorentino. The film is loosely based on the story of Martin Cahill, a famous Irish crime boss.[6]

Filmed in late 1998 and originally scheduled for a fall 1999 release. Icon shipped out the movie overseas the following year, while Miramax Films acquired North American distribution rights,[7] but it never got a proper theatrical release, and was released straight to video in January 2003, almost five years after filming began.

  1. ^ "International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International. 24 March 2000. p. 26.
  2. ^ "Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)". Archived from the original on 10 March 2017.
  3. ^ https://variety.com/1998/film/news/icon-catches-criminal-1117469333/ [bare URL]
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference stars-out was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference caper was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Ordinary Decent Criminal". The Irish in Film. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  7. ^ Roman, Monica (23 September 1998). "Miramax nabs 'Criminal'". Variety. Retrieved 22 February 2024.


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