Pete's Meteor
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Directed by | Joe O'Byrne |
Written by | Joe O'Byrne |
Produced by | John S. Lyons Liam O'Neill |
Starring | Brenda Fricker Alfred Molina Mike Myers |
Cinematography | Paul Sarossy |
Edited by | Marie-Thérèse Boiché |
Music by | Richard Hartley |
Distributed by | KC Medien |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | Ireland |
Language | English |
Pete's Meteor is an Irish
Mike Myers plays a
Production and Release
The
It won the Crystal Bear Special Mention award for Best Feature Film at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival. Despite this, the film failed to find a distributor, and was released direct-to-video in the United States in December 2002.
In a 2002 profile of Myers in
Reception
Christopher Null of Contactmusic.com awarded the film two stars out of five and wrote, “The story doesn't help matters, and sheer insanity is not much of a substitute for actual character development.”[3]
Nathan Rabin of The Dissolve gave the film a negative review and wrote, “It doesn’t help that the child actors deliver performances so terrible, they may actually persuade audiences to root against a trio of hard-luck orphans.” Rabin also added, “I recommend Pete’s Meteor to bad-movie aficionados.”[4]
References
- Evening Herald. Dublin.
- ^ "Mike Myers: Why does everyone want to get into bed with him?". www.independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Null, Christopher. "Pete's Meteor". Contactmusic.com. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ "You Might Also Like: Mike Myers shows his maudlin side in Pete's Meteor". thedissolve.com. Archived from the original on 20 September 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
External links
- Pete's Meteor at IMDb
- Pete's Meteor at Rotten Tomatoes