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A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
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Release Date:
11 September 1987 (USA) morePlot:
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 synopsisUser Comments:
Rourke's linguistic opus moreCast
(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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Germany:105 min | USA:107 minCountry:
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Australia:M | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Singapore:PGMOVIEmeter: 
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Continuity: At the beginning credit Liam Neeson is credited as Docherty. In most of the film everybody calls him Mulachy. moreQuotes:
Anna: You turned your back on killing. So has Martin Fallon.Father Michael Da Costa: I'm not so sure he has!
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Mickey Rourke is a much deeper and more dedicated actor than he gets credit for. His accent in " A Prayer.." is spot on and that is quite an accomplishment that takes months of dedication. He takes his place up in the front row with Gary Oldman, Pete Postlewaithe (sp.?) and I even have to include Brad Pitt after his amazing performance in Snatch. Rourke's Bad Boy image makes the moral dilemma he creates for himself or finds himself in even more effective. Brilliant scene when Hoskins becomes increasingly irate and at the peak of his fury we see him from Rourke's POV and his dark outline eclipses the first few letters of a "Courage" beer sign and only the flashing red neon letters RAGE remain.