Boondock Saints 2: All Saints' Day: A film review

- Vancouver, British Columbia - Not long after the original Boondock Saints was released and found success on DVD shelves, writer/director Troy Duffy talked about making a second film. However, for reasons that I don't know all the details to (yet), Duffy was not a popular figure in Hollywood and as such he found his movie trapped in development hell where he couldn't find the funding to make it. Somehow he managed to find the money because in 2009, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day was given a limited release in theatres making $11 million off of an $8 million budget proving that his gambit with the first film paid off even further.

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Boondock Saints: A film review

- Vancouver, British Columbia - The Boondock Saints is the debut feature film for writer/director Troy Duffy who up until this point was a bartender and struggling musician, who moved to Los Angles so his band could take off. When the film was released in 1999, it was panned by critics and only played in a very small amount of theatres, making $30,000 domestically. It had a $6 million dollar budget. Ouch. However, the film took on a life of its own once it hit video store shelves and became a cult hit selling $50 million worth of DVDs and videos. So, even the critics have to admit that there is clearly some appeal to the film.

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