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6.2/10   365 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Gerald Seymour (book)
Nicholas Meyer (screenplay)
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Release Date:
2 January 1998 (Turkey) more
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Tagline:
Even freedom has its price.
Plot:
A young IRA member is forced to turn informant on his comrades when he is caught in an assassination attempt on a judge. | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations more
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Stereotypes, but well played ones more (16 total)

Cast

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Anthony Brophy ... Gingy McAnally

Cary Elwes ... Lt. David Ferris

Timothy Dalton ... DCI Rennie
Maria Lennon ... Roisin McAnally
John Kavanagh ... IRA Chief
Sean McGinley ... Frankie Conroy
Frankie McCafferty ... Dalton

Stuart Graham ... Det. Astley
Gary Lydon ... Det. McDonough
Sean Kearns ... Det. Prentice

B.J. Hogg ... Constable Goss
Ciarán Fitzgerald ... Gerard McAnally
Virginia Cole ... Roisin's Ma
Gary Lammin ... Cpl. Jones
James Gaddas ... British I.O.
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Field of Blood (USA) (working title)
Johnny Loves Suzie (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language, sexuality and violence, including a rape scene.
Runtime:
149 min | USA:105 min | Germany:105 min
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Factual errors: In one scene, the Union Flag is upside down. more

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5 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
Stereotypes, but well played ones, 23 August 2003
Author: longshot_dk from Denmark

Well I am in the middle of doing my thesis for my masters degree in history and my subject is the IRA. Now, this film, although it is quite good, beats around the stereotype picture I sometimes read about the English government would like to project as part of the criminalisation of the IRA. Hereby not defending any of the involved parts, I just find it sad to see, how narrowminded the irish basically are portrayed while the archtype of chivalry is of course english (and notice the stupid scotsman in the end of the movie). This could be something out of an english propaganda film!

If you look away from this, the movie is wellwritten and well played. there is a lot of human expressions of love and hate, and it all fits nicely together. I enjoyed the film, but thought that it just as well could have been a mobster movie...there were so many things that were wrong but still, it was nice... 5/10

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