Release Date: 7/7/1998 Original Release: 1997 Format: DVD Length: 114 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: For language and some violence UPC: 025192024023 Studio: Universal Studios Home Video
Dramas, Politics, Terrorism, Injustice, Love Triangle, Theatrical Release, Ireland
Description
Daniel Day-Lewis stars in this searing portrait of 1990s Belfast ripped apart by 20 years of religious conflict and IRA violence. Danny Flynn (Day-Lewis), a repentant IRA operative seasoned by a 14-year prison term, returns to the neighborhood of his childhood to try to rebuild his life. A prizefighter in his youth, he teams up with his old trainer (Ken Stott) to reopen a nonsectarian boxing gym in a bombed-out community center. Meanwhile, Danny finds himself undeniably drawn to his old girlfriend Maggie (Emily Watson), who is now married to his former best friend, an imprisoned IRA member. Maggie's father, Joe Hamil (Brian Cox), the head of the local IRA chapter, is attempting to negotiate an IRA cease-fire, causing extreme tension between IRA factions with opposing views. Danny and Maggie's rekindled love, which defies the IRA rule promising death for anyone having an affair with an imprisoned operative's wife, thrusts Danny straight into the center of the erupting tensions. Irish director Jim Sheridan and British actor Daniel Day-Lewis (who worked together on IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER and MY LEFT FOOT) once again team up with wondrous results, creating a vivid and captivating portrait of an Ireland intimately torn by ancient religious strife.
DVD Features
Region 1 Keep Case Letterbox 1.66 - Dual Layer Audio: Dolby Digital - 5.0 - English Dolby Digital - 5.0 - Spanish Dolby Digital - 5.0 - French Additional Release Material: Commentary with director Jim Sheridan Commentary with producer, Arthur Lappin Never-before behind-the-scenes footage Cast and Filmmaker bios Trailer - Theatrical Alternate Ending Deleted Scenes Film Highlights Production Notes
Includes the short film FIGHTING FOR PEACE: Inside the Boxer.
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