Mike Myers plays a drug dealer living in the slums of Dublin.

Alfred Molina plays a wealthy scientist that the children must confront to retrieve their heaven-sent gift.

Despite this, the film failed to find a distributor, and was released direct-to-video in the United States in December 2002.

In a 2002 profile of Myers in The Independent, the film was said to have "proved meteoric in the way it vanished from view".

[2] Christopher Null of Contactmusic.com awarded the film two stars out of five and wrote, “The story doesn't help matters, and sheer insanity is not much of a substitute for actual character development.”[3] Nathan Rabin of The Dissolve gave the film a negative review and wrote, “It doesn’t help that the child actors deliver performances so terrible, they may actually persuade audiences to root against a trio of hard-luck orphans.” Rabin also added, “I recommend Pete’s Meteor to bad-movie aficionados.”[4] This article related to an Irish film is a stub.