Kneecap(2024)

R
Rated R for pervasive drug content and language, sexual content/nudity and some violence
1h 45m
- Comedy
- Drama

Release Date: Aug 2, 2024 | Limited

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.

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Releases

Original Release | Aug 2, 2024

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$470,977
Total US & Canada:
$1,145,143
Total International
$3,401,745
Total Worldwide:
$4,546,888

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Director & Top Cast

Rich Peppiatt
Director

Josie Walker
Actor

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Ireland,United Kingdom

Language: English,Irish Gaelic

Summaries

Storyline

Kneecap is set in West Belfast in 2019. Fate brings together disillusioned music teacher JJ with self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, changing the sound of Irish music forever. Under the name Kneecap, their band begins moulding the language to fit their tough, anarchic, hedonistic lives. A language encumbered with forty words for stone now has one for stoned. But to get their voices heard the trio must overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians as the future of the Irish language erupts into the public arena - with them at the centre. Yet their worst enemies are often themselves, as family and relationship pressures threaten their dreams, and their illegal exploits draw condemnation from all sides. — Hot Press When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians trying to silence their defiant sound - whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic KNEECAP play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.