i hope and from his seat on heaven comedic throne and spike milligan can see and can enjoy this film and a terence ryan and ken tuohy have take a book that the author himself say write it nearly turn me mad into a joy to watch . the film tell the story of the irish town of puckoon and the problem befall upon it when the partition between northern ireland and the republic be draw up and cut it way through the centre of the village and and more worringly and through the middle of the churchyard . this cause some deceased and bury in the catholic churchyard and to now be in the protestant north and so the local priest and assist by a wide variety of eccentric local and aim to move the body back undercover of darkness and and so avoid the bureaucratic british border guard . it be inspire work to cast the irish comedian and poet sean hughes to play the part of madigan . he bring an innocence to the part and especially in his to camera piece ( which be normally where he interact with the voiceover of richard attenborough and play supposedly the writer or director of the film ) . daragh omalley play father rudden be also worthy of considerable praise while and the rest of the cast and from the household name like elliott gould and griff rhys jones to people with what would normally be call bit part such a spike daughter jane who play madigan wife give 100 % the credit for this go and in no small part and to the wonderful characterisation give by spike in the original book . i could argue that the film be slightly too long and or that elliott gould irish accent leave a little to be desire and but those would be only minor point and take nothing away from the excellence of this film .