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Director
Colin Gregg
Credits
written by Bernard Maclaverty, based on his novel; director of photography, Mike Garfath; edited by Peter Delfgou; music by Van Morrison
Principal Cast
Liam Neeson, Hugh O'Conor, Ian Bannen, Ronan Wilmot and Frances Tomelty
Category
Feature
Michael Lamb (Liam Neeson) is an idealistic young Brother in a west of Ireland reformatory, ill at ease with the brutal regime under which the young inmates live. The recent death of his father and his growing anger at the mistreatment of one of the boys (Hugh O’Conor) prompts him to take dramatic action; cash in his inheritance and flee with the boy to England. With this unconventional relationship between a naïve young cleric and a troubled child at its core, the film is vivid and unsettling – and unlikely to have been made at a later stage when scandals of clerical abuse were rife – with Neeson in his first lead film role and a remarkable debut for Hugh O’Conor (four years before his Oscar nomination for My Left Foot). (Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn.)
110 minutes, Ireland-UK, 1985
AKIRA (4K RESTORATION) 20.40
AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY) 13.00
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MISSIONS IMPOSSIBLE (PROGRAMME 1) 13.00
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER 15.50, 18.20
FROM THE VAULTS: GARAGE 18.30
REBUILDING 13.30, 20.50
THE BLUE TRAIL 13.50, 18.10
THE DRAMA 16.00
THE STRANGER 15.40
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN 20.15
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