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Release Date:
January 1991 (USA) moreTagline:
Murder... Torture... Corruption... The Truth Can Never Be Buried. morePlot:
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend... more | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
All too relevant more (12 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Frances McDormand | ... | Ingrid Jessner |
 | Brian Cox | ... | Kerrigan |
 | Brad Dourif | ... | Paul Sullivan |
 | Mai Zetterling | ... | Moa |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Bernard Archard | ... | Sir Robert Neil |
| Maureen Bell | ... | Mrs. Molloy |
| John Benfield | ... | Maxwell |
| Bernard Bloch | ... | Henri |
| Stephen Brigden | ... | Army major |
| Victoria D'Angelo | ... | Journalist |
| Kym Dyson | ... | Carol |
| Michelle Fairley | ... | Teresa Doyle |
| Gerry Fearon | ... | Taxi driver |
| Llew Gardner | ... | TV announcer |
| Patrick Kavanagh | ... | Alec Nevin |
| Ron Kavana | ... | Musician |
| John Keegan | ... | Det. Sgt. Hughes |
| Ivan Little | ... | TV reporter |
| Oliver Maguire | ... | Supt. Fraser |
| Des McAleer | ... | Sgt. Kennedy |
| Jim McAllister | ... | Liam Philbin |
| Brian McCann | ... | Molloy |
| John McDonnell | ... | Labour MP |
| Ian McElhinney | ... | Jack Cunningham |
| Mandy McIlwaine | ... | RUC policewoman |
| Jim Norton | ... | Brodie |
| Robert Patterson | ... | Ian Logan |
 | Maurice Roëves | ... | Harris |
| Mildred Shay | ... | Mrs. Brown |
| Kate Smith | ... | Reporter |
| George Staines | ... | McKee |
| Terry Woods | ... | Musician |
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Not top-drawer Ken Loach; the "thriller" elements are well-done, but the warmth and depth Loach brings to his working-class stories has no place here. There's a structural flaw in the script, too--it presents itself as a film about Northern Ireland but then jumps headlong into something equally involving but quite different.
It is, all the same, a well-crafted, atmospheric film that never lacks excitement and raises some substantial issues. More importantly, the entire film is sadly prescient. The opening torture narratives could have been translated from accounts of Abu Ghraib prison. Change a couple of proper names and the scenery, and this would be the best film around on the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Even the second half of the story (no spoiler warning, so I give no details) rings truer and truer as time goes by.
Richly deserves reissue.