The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) on Netflix
NR19992h 19mAdventureComedyFamily
American businessman Jack Woods takes a cottage in Ireland, already home to a leprechaun family. Their son Mickey falls for fairy princess Jessica, whose kind are the leprechauns' enemies.
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb7.0/104,847 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes81%
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Plot summary
An American businessman, Jack Woods, is on holiday in Ireland. On a hike he comes upon Kathleen Fitzpatrick swimming; she chases him off, but he is smitten with her. That evening he saves the drowning leprechaun Seamus Muldoon, who in gratitude brings Jack to meet Mary, his wife, and Mickey, his son, and opens the leprechaun world to him. Jack settles into sharing the house with the little people, who help him get to know Kathleen. Mickey, meanwhile, has fallen in love with Jessica, a fairy princess, and the two begin a relationship. Jessica's cousin Count Grogan opposes a match between leprechauns and fairies, who are traditional enemies.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Every character in the miniseries, including the tiny leprechauns, was actually played by a full-size actor, with the small-scale illusion created afterward by digitally splicing the footage together.
- New York Magazine spoke favorably of Whoopi Goldberg's performance as the Grand Banshee, though its reviewer John Leonard admitted he was too preoccupied with current events to give the miniseries a fair assessment.
