Perrier's Bountyis an Irish crime thriller comedy set in modern-day Dublin . Sophomore director Ian Fitzgibbon directs the film, which stars Brendan Gleeson , who plays the villainous title character, as well as Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent as son and father.
Filming was completed in late January 2009, and premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival . The movie is slated for a late-year release. It was to be released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the 26th March 2010.
Michael McCrae ( Cillian Murphy ) lives in Dublin , Ireland , where he owes €1,000 to gang leader Darren Perrier ( Brendan Gleeson ). If he misses his deadline, the gang will punish him by breaking a limb (and the longer he takes, the more limbs they will break). Desperate for the money, he seeks financial aid from "The Mutt" ( Liam Cunningham ) who is known as a criminal lender. Things become complicated, however, when his estranged father Jim ( Jim Broadbent ) and his secret crush, Brenda "Bren" ( Jodie Whittaker ) become involved, and when Bren shoots and kills one of the gang members who was sent to deliver his first punishment, Perrier forsakes the money owed and instead puts out a €10,000 bounty for Michael and Bren. The film follows the three as they desperately seek to salvage the situation before Perrier can capture them.