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Colin Leinster (novel)
Tony Luraschi (writer)
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11 June 1981 (Netherlands) more
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Irish-American Vietnam vet, disillusioned, goes to Ireland, gets more disillusioned by IRA more (9 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Craig Wasson | ... | Michael Flaherty |
| Sterling Hayden | ... | Seamus Flaherty |
| Patricia Quinn | ... | Siobhan |
| Niall O'Brien | ... | Emmet Donovan |
 | T.P. McKenna | ... | John Russell |
 | Niall Toibin | ... | The Farmer |
| Frank Grimes | ... | Tony Coyle |
| Elizabeth Begley | ... | Mrs. Cochran |
 | Bosco Hogan | ... | Finbar Donovan |
| Ray McAnally | ... | MacWhirter |
| J.G. Devlin | ... | Sean Tweeny |
| Joe Dowling | ... | Pat |
| Aiden Grennell | ... | Hanlan |
| Joe McPartland | ... | Joe McDermott |
| Des Cave | ... | Kevin McCann (as Desmond Cave) |
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128 min
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Years ago I visited NY, noticed this film and despite a pan by the NY Times, saw it since I'd been impressed by Craig Wasson in Go Tell the Spartans (still the best fiction film on Vietnam). Loved it: excellent story that avoids clichés, very well acted and directed. Came off a bit as The Further Adventures of the Craig Wasson Character Who Had Been in Nam. Disillusioned Nam vet wants purpose in life, goes to ancestral home Ireland, gets more disillusioned at being used by both IRA and Brits for their own, different purposes. Even becomes disillusioned with grandfather, whose screwed up memories of IRA glory persuaded him to go there. Maybe my memory of details is inaccurate (saw it once when it opened), but the final scene stays with me still: Wasson in a phone booth in Detroit, hitting the receiver on the phone box in frustration. Hope it comes out in DVD. If so, I'd order it in an instant.