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Writers:
Jack Higgins (novel)
Edmund Ward (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
11 September 1987 (USA) more
Plot:
Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children... more | add synopsis
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Definitely the best Mickey Rourke film more (19 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Mickey Rourke | ... | Martin Fallon |
 | Bob Hoskins | ... | Father Michael Da Costa |
 | Alan Bates | ... | Jack Meehan |
 | Sammi Davis | ... | Anna |
 | Christopher Fulford | ... | Billy Meehan |
 | Liam Neeson | ... | Liam Docherty |
 | Leonard Termo | ... | Bonati |
| Camille Coduri | ... | Jenny Fox |
| Maurice O'Connell | ... | Superintendant Miller |
 | Alison Doody | ... | Siobhan Donovan |
| Karl Johnson | ... | Fitzgerald |
| Ian Bartholomew | ... | Kristou |
| Peggy Aitchison | ... | Mrs. Orton |
| Cliff Burnett | ... | Fred Varley |
 | Anthony Head | ... | Rupert |
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107 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Singapore:PG
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The piece of music Fallon plays on the Organ is a fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, BWV 578. more
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Continuity: At the beginning credit Liam Neeson is credited as Docherty. In most of the film everybody calls him Mulachy. more
Quotes:
Martin Fallon:
There's no reason for killing or dying anymore. What's more, there's no reason for living!
Anna:
That's a terrible thing to say!
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Referenced in The Boondock Saints (1999) more
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It is a mystery for me how the great movies sometimes fall through the cracks. I don't expect it to be everyone's favorite but being completely missed by almost everybody? It puzzles me. If you up for a tough and disturbing movie tonight rent it. You won't be disappointed.