Shadow Dancer
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Shadow Dancer
Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer (Mac) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son’s life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in Mac and return home, but when her brothers’ secret operation is ambushed, suspicions of an informant are raised and Collette finds both herself and her family in grave danger.
Genre
Drama,
Thriller/Suspense
Web Site
Runtime
104
Language
English
Director
James Marsh
Cast
Andrea Riseborough,
Gillian Anderson
FEATURED REVIEW
William Goss, Film.com
‘Shadow Dancer’ takes place in a world of men with tarps. They lie in wait, inevitably armed, ready to create messes if only so that they might then be cleaned up. This is the reality of Belfast during the Troubles, first in 1973 as Collette McVeigh (Maria Laird) sees her younger brother die in cold ...
Played at
Town Center 5 4.05.13 - 4.11.13
Monica Film Center 5.31.13 - 6.13.13
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