A Film With Me In It is a 2008 Irish black comedy

Black comedy

A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...

 film directed by Ian Fitzgibbon, written by and starring Mark Doherty.

Plot

Doherty plays an unsuccessful actor and clarinet player who ends up with a large number of dead bodies on his hands. Together with his friend Pierce (Dylan Moran

Dylan Moran

Dylan Moran is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books , and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run...

), they attempt to escape their predicament by re-writing the day's events as if it were a film. As the body count mounts, they pitch ideas back and forth desperately searching for a way out.

Cast

• Mark Doherty as Mark, a struggling actor and the eponymous Me.
• Dylan Moran
  Dylan Moran
  Dylan Moran is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books , and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run...
  
   as Pierce, an aspiring screenwriter and Mark's best friend.
• Amy Huberman
  Amy Huberman
  Amy O'Driscoll, professionally known as Amy Huberman, is an Irish actress and writer who has starred in numerous productions since beginning her career in 2002 on RTÉ's On Homeground.-Early life:...
  
   as Sally, Mark's long suffering girlfriend.
• Keith Allen as Jack the landlord. Allen previously played a tenant who died unexpectedly in the film Shallow Grave
  Shallow Grave
  -Track listing:# Leftfield – "Shallow Grave" – 4:38# Simon Boswell – "Shallow Grave Theme" – 3:30# Nina Simone – "My Baby Just Cares for Me" – 3:38# Simon Boswell – "Laugh Riot" – 3:02# Leftfield – "Release the Dubs" – 5:45...
  
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• Aisling O'Sullivan as Policewoman.
• David O'Doherty
  David O'Doherty
  David Nicholas O'Doherty is a Perrier Award winning Irish stand-up comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright. His stand-up has won two awards at the Edinburgh Fringe, Best Newcomer first of all and the if.comedy award in 2008 for his show Let's Comedy. He has been nominated twice more for...
  
   as David, Mark's wheelchair-using brother. David and Mark are brothers in real life despite the different stage surnames.

Cameos by Irish director Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...

, and actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Reception

Michael Dwyer of the Irish Times gave the film 4 stars out of 5 and described it as "Withnail & I reworked by Joe Orton

Joe Orton

John Kingsley Orton was an English playwright.In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies...

".
It was nominated for six Irish Film and Television Awards IFTA

IFTA

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 including best film, best actor (Dylan Moran) and best screenplay (Mark Doherty) but did not win, with the film Hunger

Hunger (2008 film)

Hunger is a 2008 film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and Steve R. McQueen, who also directed. It was made by Blast! Films and commissioned by Channel 4 and Film4. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for...

winning in six of eight categories in which it was nominated.

It won the Special Jury Prize at the 28th International Istanbul Film Festival in Turkey.