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Director:
David Wheatley
Writer:
Bernard MacLaverty (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
20 February 1993 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Fictionalized account of British, Irish, and American hostages taken in Lebanon in late 1980's. Dark... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
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Cast

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Kathy Bates ... Peggy Say

Colin Firth ... John McCarthy

Ciarán Hinds ... Brian Keenan

Natasha Richardson ... Jill Morrell

Jay O. Sanders ... Terry Anderson
Josef Sommer ... Tom Sutherland

Harry Dean Stanton ... Frank Reed
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rasan Abbas ... Head Kidnapper
Conrad Asquith ... Terry Waite
Colin Bruce ... Robie Burke
Colum Convey ... Art Agnew
Stephen Dillane ... Chris Pearson
Harry Ditson ... David Say
Tony Doyle ... Badraig Murphy
Paul Jaynes ... Newsman

Amir M. Korangy ... Ghassemmi
Gooey Law ... Newsman
Rosaleen Linehan ... Brenda Gilham
Ruth McCabe ... Elaine Spence
Brian McGrath ... Connor
Juliano Mer ... Ali
Gabrielle O'Brien ... Belfast Woman
Patrick Pearson ... Lowther
John Pickles ... Pat McCarthy
Raad Rawi ... Moussavlan

Sami Samir ... Ahmad
Rolf Saxon ... Plaskett

Mozaffar Shafeie ... Translator

Colin Stinton ... Mike Mulholland
Dan Turgeman ... Mahmoud
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Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Company:
Granada Film Productions more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
It's well worth my five dollars!, 7 August 2001
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Author: Sylvia Marciniak (sylviastel@aol.com) from United States

I bought the video for less than five bucks at a liquidators store. I wanted the video for one of my favorite actors, Rolf Saxon. HE has a minor part and only two scenes. But in between them, the film is filled with solid performances by Kathy Bates, Natasha Richardson, Ciaran Hinds, Colin Firth, and Harry Dean Stanton. It can also be recommended for educational purposes to discuss the years when Iran and the U.S. were enemies. Besides the red tape, we learn the horror and the reasons for it. It can be a very deep movie. You almost feel sympathy for their captors too. We know that they were not all evil entirely. THey had their reasons too. While the treatment was cruel and harsh, the hostage crisis was forced to pay the world's attention to the other Israeli-held hostages!

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