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1987 Certificate 18 Certificate 18 (TBC)
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A new breed of hero, Brosnan is Mark Taffin, a hired enforcer who out-toughs the toughs by outsmarting them. As a debt-collector, he's unstoppable. He's quick with his fists but doubly so with wits. When a toxic chemical plant resorts to brutalizing townspeople to quell their protest, Taffin is there to protect them. Read more

Starring Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child
Director Francis Megahy, Francis Megahy
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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Taffin

A new breed of hero, Brosnan is Mark Taffin, a hired enforcer who out-toughs the toughs by outsmarting them. As a debt-collector, he's unstoppable. He's quick with his fists but doubly so with wits. When a toxic chemical plant resorts to brutalizing townspeople to quell their protest, Taffin is there to protect them.

Starring Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child
Director Francis Megahy, Francis Megahy
Studio UCA
Run time DVD: 1 hr 32 mins
Watch now: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate DVD: Certificate 18, Watch Online: Certificate 18 (TBC)
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Watch Online: English
Subtitles DVD: None
Released DVD: 18 Sep 2006
Watch now: 10 Sep 2009
Production year: 1987
Watch now £2.49
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Dull thriller, with Pierce Brosnan as a tough-guy debt collector confronting unscrupulous developers who want to build a chemical plant in a quiet Irish town. Brosnan's watchable, but displays little of the charisma that he'd bring years later to Bond. But, back in 1988, he was still essentially a TV star, and hadn't yet learned to project his persona for the cinema screen. A rock-solid support cast includes Patrick Bergin, Alison Doody and Ray McAnally.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • A confused and unexciting thriller set in a small Irish coastal town, where the hero Taffin (Brosnan) earns his keep as... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Good craic

    Enjoyably silly and amusingly dated 80s drama, more like a TV show from that time. Brosnan hams it up as Mark Taffin, an ex-seminarian, philosopher, intellectual, hardman debt-collector trying to prevent a chemical plant being built in his idyllic seaside Irish town. Lots of Irish scenery and Irish music and Irish actors (look out for Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly form 'Father Ted'), big hair, big cars and a mobile phone the size of a brick.

      • Stiofan from Oxford
      • Posted 20 Jan 2007 12:04

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Good craic

    Enjoyably silly and amusingly dated 80s drama, more like a TV show from that time. Brosnan hams it up as Mark Taffin, an ex-seminarian, philosopher, intellectual, hardman debt-collector trying to prevent a chemical plant being built in his idyllic seaside Irish town. Lots of Irish scenery and Irish music and Irish actors (look out for Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly form 'Father Ted'), big hair, big cars and a mobile phone the size of a brick.

      • Stiofan from Oxford
      • Posted 20 Jan 2007 12:04

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