An Everlasting Piece

An Everlasting Piece is a 2000 American comedy film. The movie was directed by Barry Levinson. It was written by and starred Barry McEvoy. The plot involves two wig salesmen, one Catholic and one Protestant, who live in wartorn Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the mid1980s. The supporting cast includes comedian Billy Connolly as an patient in a psychiatric hospital. McEvoy based the screenplay on the adventures of his father as a toupe peddler to both sides in the midst of the conflict. The movie was shot on location in both Belfast and Dublin.

Colm and George, calling themselves The Piece People, embark on their plan to get rich. Colms girlfriend Bronagh Anna Friel helps. She sets up their first appointment with a Mr Black Des McAleer, who eventually agrees to buy a hairpiece, although he denies having been a customer of The Scalper. Bronagh had seen his picture in the newspaper featured after he shot a Catholic and, as he was bald, thought hed be a good prospect. Having little success in sales, Colm and George discover they have competition from Toupe or not Toupe, rivals who also acquired the client list. The supplier, Wigs Of Wimbledon, decides to hold a meeting with two companies to inform them that the one who sells the most in a given time period will win an exclusive rights for all of Northern Ireland. The partners visit a farmer but lose the sale, learning that their competitors are underselling them. On a remote road, they are stopped by members of the Irish Republican Army IRA, demanding to know what they are up to. This confrontation results in the partners selling a wig to the lead IRA man Colum Convey, who fails to notice it had been chewed by dogs.The competition is raging, but the IRA man accidentally leaves the unique wig at the scene of a bombing. The Royal Ulster Constabulary RUC trace it to The Piece People. After being interrogated, George and Colm have a falling out. Meanwhile, the IRA man who lost the wig tracks Colm down and demands Colm sell him his whole inventory because now every bald Catholic in Northern Ireland is a potential suspect for the police. Colm refuses as his business partner is a Protestant and thinks it would be unethical to protect the IRA because the sales would likely help The Piece People win the exclusive deal with Wigs Of Wimbledon. ........

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