Directed by:
Oliver HirschbiegelScreenplay:
Guy HibbertCinematography:
Ruairí O'BrienComposer:
David HolmesCast:
Liam Neeson, Diarmuid Noyes, James Nesbitt, Niamh Cusack, Andrea Irvine, Conor MacNeill, Gerard Jordan, Anamaria Marinca, Barry McEvoy, Richard Dormer (more)VOD (1)
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In 1975, 17-year-old Irish-Protestant Alistair Little assassinated 19-year-old Catholic Jim Griffin in his Ulster home. The murder was witnessed by Griffin’s 11-year-old brother Joe. Thirty years later, Little (Neeson) has been rehabilitated and released from prison, while Joe Griffin (James Nesbitt) remains traumatized and bitter. But when a television talk show decides to bring them together for a live on-air reconciliation, two men haunted by one moment must come face-to-face with their own worlds of pain, violence and vengeance. (official distributor synopsis)
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A fairly rough drama that – based on some of the events – could have only happened in Ireland. Because within just a few minutes, the story in itself is creating the most nerve-wrecking encounter of two characters who would like to deal with their past. Personally, I must say that it’s been a long time since a movie made me stop breathing and I remembered to inhale at the end. Liam Neeson played the broken man just as well as James Nesbitt played the revenge-hungry one. The result is – as I can see from the reviews on this site – a little contradictory, but I must say that I was personally happy. With the entire movie.
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