Sony Pictures Classics Sets Summer Launch For Sundance Music Doc ‘Kneecap’
deadline.comOn the heels of its premiere to critical acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the documentary Kneecap on the Irish rap trio of the same name has been slated for release by Sony Pictures Classics in theaters nationwide on August 2, when it will open against Columbia Pictures’ family film Harold and the Purple Crayon.
The first Irish-language film to bow out of Sundance, where it landed the NEXT Audience Award, pic stars Naoise Ó Cairealláin aka “Móglaí Bap,” Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh aka “Mo Chara” and JJ Ó Dochartaigh aka “DJ Provaí” as themselves, all making their acting debuts.
Others in the cast include Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Adam Best, Simone Kirby and Michael Fassbender.
When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed “low life scum” Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other.
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