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Eureka Street

"All stories are love stories."

1999-09-13
6.7
en
DramaComedy
Eureka Street is a BBC Northern Ireland 1999 adaptation to mini-series of Robert McLiam Wilson's 1996 novel of the same name. Set in Belfast in the six months before and after the 1994 ceasefire, it commences with an anonymous hand typing the words, "All stories are love stories." The novel opens with the same text. The story follows the lives of two friends: the Catholic Jake Jackson – struggling with a failed relationship, his job as a repossession agent and the effect of the Troubles on the world around him – and the Protestant Chuckie Lurgan, "fat" and unemployed until circumstances and a previously untapped entrepreneurial spirit lead him to a world very different from Eureka Street. The adaptation was scripted by Donna Franceschild, directed by Adrian Shergold and starred Vincent Regan as Jake and Mark Benton as Chuckie.

Director

Adrian Shergold

Writer

Donna Franceschild

Writer

Robert McLiam Wilson

Music

Martin Phipps

Musician

Ed O'Brien

Cinematography

Dafydd Hobson

Status

Ended

Countries

  • Northern Ireland
  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • BBC Northern Ireland

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