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Plot summary
Frankie and Fergus Molloy are lifelong friends, both working as private security contractors in Iraq. Frankie comes home in a coffin, and on a ferry in Liverpool Fergus remembers the last messages Frankie sent him. The night before the funeral he opens the coffin and sees the badly injured body. At the service Haynes, a director of the company they both worked for, praises Frankie in a eulogy, and he and Walker explain to the family how the death happened. Fergus questions the two men closely, and when he sees Haynes handing business cards to soldiers at the wake, Fergus attacks him. Marisol gives Fergus a package that Frankie had left with a friend, along with a request that it reach Fergus.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Route Irish (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The waterboarding scene in Route Irish was performed for real on actor Trevor Williams after earlier attempts at merely staging it proved unsatisfactory; despite knowing he was safe, the filming left him deeply disturbed and caused him weeks of panic attacks.
- The character Craig was played by an actual Iraq War veteran, Craig Lundberg, whom the writer had encountered while doing research for the film.
