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Genres:
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Drama /
Thriller /
Music
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Director:
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Kari Skogland
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Actors:
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Gerard Jordan,
David Pearse,
Tom Collins,
Ben Kingsley,
Jim Sturgess,
Kevin Zegers,
Natalie Press,
Rose McGowan,
William Houston,
Michael McElhatton
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Duration:
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117 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)74
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Plot Summary:
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Based on Martin McGartland's shocking genuine life allegory, Martin is a progeny lad from west Belfast in the modern 1980s who is recruited nigh the British Police to agent on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer since the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in the process; until unified day he is exposed, captured and tortured to within an inch of his life. He escaped dramatically sooner than throwing himself from a tower block window and is still in hiding today.
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
When it was conceived, Fifty Dead Men Walking must have appeared a aeon piece. But like Steve McQueen's Hunger and the BBC's Five Minutes Of Islands sky, the Natural IRA's resumption of activities in 2009 has ensured that Kari Skogland's picture seems more prescient than ancient. Based on the autobiography of genuine-being informant Martin McGartland, Jim Sturgess (Across The Bailiwick, 21) plays the West Belfast servant who's approached by means of Ben Kingsley's copper with an eye to 'touting' in requital for the RUC. As a life's work realm of possibilities it seems suicidal, but Sturgess' gallant twentysomething is directly working his way with the aid the ranks of the IRA. Ferment information thoroughly Kingsley's Fergus, Sturgess' Martin prevents atrociti...
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