The Young Offenders (2016) on Netflix
NR20161h 23mAdventureComedyCrime
Conor and Jock, teenage best friends from Cork, steal bicycles for a 160-kilometer ride. They hope to track down a bale of cocaine that was never recovered and sell it.
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- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.1/1013,992 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes100%
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Plot summary
Conor and Jock are teenagers from Cork who wear the same clothes and share the same thin mustaches. Jock is a well-known bicycle thief who is chased daily by Sergeant Healy, an officer devoted to catching bike thieves. Conor lives with his mother, Mairead, and their relationship is strained. A drug boat overturns near the coast of West Cork. Authorities recover 61 bales, each valued at 7 million euro, and word spreads that one bale was never found. The boys take bicycles and ride 160 kilometers in search of it, hoping to sell the cocaine and leave their troubled home lives behind. Sergeant Healy is following them.
Cast
- Cora Fentonas Jock's Mother
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Young Offenders (2016)
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- The Young Offenders is based on Operation Seabight, the actual 2007 seizure of 1.5 tonnes of cocaine off the Irish coast near Mizen Head.
- The Young Offenders became the fastest Irish film to break the €1 million mark at the Irish box office in 2016.
