This month marks the 15th Anniversary of writer/director Troy Duffy's THE BOONDOCK SAINTS, the runaway cult hit that's inspired everything from tattoos to t-shirts to copycat films. Itself an ode to the work of Tarantino and those before him, THE BOONDOCK SAINTS was a very troubled production with Duffy seeming to crumble under his own hubris in his rise from a bartender-cum-filmmaker. Starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Willem Dafoe, and Billy Connolly, the film is largely revered for it's excessive violence and un-PC tone, which is a no-holds barred kind of journey of crime, revenge, and vigilantism through the eyes of it's protagonists. Love it, hate it, or just plain sick of it from rewatching it so many times at the height of its popularity, THE BOONDOCK SAINTS remains a cultural phenomenon with a compelling backstory that's almost as tragic as it is inspiring.
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