The Playboys is a 1992 Irish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon and starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn and Robin Wright.

The plot follows an unwed young mother whose life is transformed with the arrival of a travelling troupe of actors to her Irish village.

[3] In a small Irish village in 1957, Tara Maguire, a young resolute woman, is the talk of the town because she is having a baby out of wedlock, and refuses to name the father.

The local priest, Father Malone, attempts to compel Tara to marry the constable before another tragedy takes place.

She supplements her income as a dressmaker, raising chickens in her garden and smuggling goods from the nearby border with Northern Ireland.

However even in this she has to face Hegarty who discovers her secret illegal dealings while riding his bicycle at night looking for smugglers on the roads.

One of their numbers with female dancers lifting their skirts causes a furious response from Father Malone, who has another opinion of what is wholesome entertainment.

Not only do the group of actors have to deal with discord when the time to share the dividends comes, but the recent arrival of television threatens the survival of their art.

When Gone With the Wind plays at the local cinema, the actors stage an instant, improvised knock-off of it, with Atlanta burning while Tom struggles with his lines in the role of Rhett Butler.