The Luck of the Irish is a 2001 American sports comedy-drama film released as a Disney Channel Original Movie.

[5] Conceived as a Saint Patrick's Day film, it was first broadcast on Disney Channel on March 9, 2001.

With his lucky gold coin on his side, 15-year-old Kyle Johnson gets everything in life, and is also the best basketball player on his team.

Heritage Day is approaching and every time Kyle asks where his family came from, his parents, Kate and Bob, change the subject.

He rushes home to tell his parents and walks in to see that his mother has shrunk to one foot tall.

He tells them who he thinks stole it, and his mom says that it was his grandfather, Reilly O'Reilly, founder of the Emerald Isle potato chip company.

While they are distracted eating dinner, Kyle and Reilly sneak into the camper and find the coin.

Russell scores the game winning shot, Reilly is set free, and Seamus has to spend eternity at the land of Kyle's father (within the shores of Lake Erie).

[7] It was a relative television success[8] The film received a very mixed retrospective review at the sports website SB Nation.