Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Ireland
The story
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
- prison
- rebellion
- based on novel or book
- parent child relationship
- faith
- 1970s
- biography
- northern ireland
- trial
- thief
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Daniel Day-Lewis
Gerry Conlon
Pete Postlethwaite
Giuseppe Conlon
Emma Thompson
Gareth Peirce
John Lynch
Paul Hill
- Corin Redgrave — Robert Dixon
- Beatie Edney — Carole Richardson
- John Benfield — Chief PO Barker
- Paterson Joseph — Benbay
- Marie Jones — Sarah Conlon
- Gerard McSorley — Belfast Detective Pavis
- Frank Harper — Ronnie Smalls
- Mark Sheppard — Paddy Armstrong
- Don Baker — Joe McAndrew
- Alison Crosbie — Girl in Pub
- Nye Heron — IRA Man 1
- Directed
- Jim Sheridan
- Written
- Terry George, Jim Sheridan
Production
- Studio
- Hell's Kitchen
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
