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Release Date:
26 March 1997 (USA)
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One man trapped by destiny, and another bound by duty. They're about to discover what they're willing to fight, and to die for. more
Plot:
A police officer uncovers the real identity of his houseguest, an IRA terrorist in hiding. full summary | add synopsis
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Friendship
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Irish
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Murder
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Terrorism
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Northern Ireland
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A name to reckon with: Saoirse Ronan
(From The Guardian - TV News. 22 January 2010, 4:10 PM, PST)
Saoirse Ronan: A name to reckon with
(From The Guardian - Film News. 22 January 2010, 4:10 PM, PST)
(From The Guardian - TV News. 22 January 2010, 4:10 PM, PST)
Saoirse Ronan: A name to reckon with
(From The Guardian - Film News. 22 January 2010, 4:10 PM, PST)
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It's not an American stoory, it's an Oirish oon!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Harrison Ford | ... | Tom O'Meara | |
| Brad Pitt | ... | Rory Devaney / Francis Austin McGuire | |
| Margaret Colin | ... | Sheila O'Meara | |
| Rubén Blades | ... | Edwin Diaz | |
| Treat Williams | ... | Billy Burke | |
| George Hearn | ... | Peter Fitzsimmons | |
| Mitch Ryan | ... | Chief Jim Kelly (as Mitchell Ryan) | |
| Natascha McElhone | ... | Megan Doherty | |
| Paul Ronan | ... | Sean Phelan | |
| Simon Jones | ... | Harry Sloan | |
| Julia Stiles | ... | Bridget O'Meara | |
| Ashley Carin | ... | Morgan O'Meara | |
| Kelly Singer | ... | Annie O'Meara | |
| David O'Hara | ... | Martin MacDuf | |
| David Wilmot | ... | Dessie |
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Rated R for strong brutal violence, and for language.
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107 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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USA:R (certificate #34333) |
Iceland:14 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
Belgium:KT |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:12 |
Netherlands:16 |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:M/16 |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
Singapore:PG
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Screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen was one of the original writers but was never credited.
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Revealing mistakes: When Tom enters the morgue, Eddies eyes twitch, though he supposed to be dead.
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Quotes:
Tom O'Meara:
What's the money for? I was thinkin' guns. I was thinkin' IRA.
Rory: I need that money Tom!
Tom O'Meara: Why? So other eight-year-olds can watch their fathers gunned down in front of 'em? If this money leaves here, more people will die. Can you tell me that won't happen?
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Rory: I need that money Tom!
Tom O'Meara: Why? So other eight-year-olds can watch their fathers gunned down in front of 'em? If this money leaves here, more people will die. Can you tell me that won't happen?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Holiday (2006)
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(Somebody) Loan Me A Dime
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A large part of Brad Pitt's genius as a movie star is his ability to pick scripts. "The Devil's Own" certainly indicates a lapse in judgment, but to a Hollywood tough guy, an IRA role is irresistible. You get a leather jacket, a ski mask, a machine gun and a cool accent. The Ulster accent is, as every movie star knows, very easy to master: just randomly scramble your vowel sounds, say "fook's seek" frequently--and you're Oirish!
But far more laughable than the accents are the action scenes, which are so badly choreographed and edited, it's hard to believe the film is a Hollywood product. First there is Sean and Frankie's shootout with "half the fookin' army," which they win. Then they escape because the British forget to watch the back door. Also, there is the mysterious appearance of a vast forest in the middle of downtown Belfast, into which IRA terrorists can easily escape when cornered. Next there is the shootout with Billy Burke, in which Frankie somehow manages to fire three rounds from a double-barrelled shotgun (taking out a sniper who, oddly enough, falls forward from the impact of a shot in the chest), retrieves his pistol and fires the same shot twice--hitting Billy Burke, who for some reason counted to ten before lunging for his own gun.
The biggest mistake was in casting Harrison Ford, a lead man who commands $20,000,000 per film, and putting him in a supporting role, which of course had to be rewritten and elevated to a co-lead. The result: instead of a film about an IRA terrorist who comes to the States to buy munitions (which is a good precept), we get a film about a New York cop who's got an IRA terrorist living in his basement. Anyone who initially proposed such a story to the studio would have been turned down, and that would have been fortunate for all involved.
In fairness to Pitt, he did try to walk away from the project, and in order to save face, ridiculed the movie before it hit the theaters, which suggests that he had more sense than anyone else on the set.