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Barry Barnes | ... |
Gerry Senior
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Maria Laird | ... |
Young Collette
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Ben Smyth | ... |
Sean
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Brid Brennan | ... |
Ma
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Jamie Scott | ... |
Young Gerry
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Bradley Burke | ... |
Young Connor
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Daniel Tatarsky | ... |
Watcher 1
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| Tom Bennett | ... |
Watcher 2
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Nia Gwynne | ... |
Female Watcher
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Jason Stalkey | ... |
Agent 1
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| Nicholas Asbury | ... |
Agent 2
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| Clive Owen | ... |
Mac
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| Morgan Watkins | ... |
MI5 Officer
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Cathal Maguire | ... |
Mark
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In 1993, the IRA member Collette is arrested in the London tube after leaving a bomb in the facility. MI-5 Agent Mac offers a deal to Collette to become an informer. She accepts the agreement to protect her son and in return Mac offers a new identity to her after a period working for the MI-5. Soon Mac learns that his superior Kate Fletcher is using Collette to protect her mole inside the Irish organization. Mac tries to find the identity of the informer and protect Collette. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
With films like In The Name of the Father, Michael Collins, and Hunger, you really have to have a great film about the IRA to get attention. This film not only succeeds as a film that belongs with the others mentioned, but it is really an impressive film.
The lighting, scenery, costumes and photography, and background music all contribute to the film in a way that one expects of a great film about Britain in the 90s.
Andrea Riseborough (Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley), Domhnall Gleeson (Anna Karenina), David Wilmot (Intermission), and Brid Brennan (Dancing at Lughnasa) gave notable performances allowing us to really feel the personal dilemmas and betrayal they experienced.
Good espionage films tend to keep my interest, and this was edge-of-the- seat action.