Devils Own

Starring: Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford Director: Alan J Pakula Original UK Premiere: 1997 Dvd Release: 12th October, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish

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Any movie starring Brad Pitt & Harrison Ford has got to be worth seeing, right? Thats as close to a guarantee as this well-meaning thriller ever gets, however, & the talents of Pitt & Ford are absolutely vital in making any sense out of this dramatically muddled scenario. Ostensibly the movies about an IRA terrorist who escapes from British troops in Belfast & travels to New York City, where he stays in the home of a seasoned cop who has no idea of the terrorists true identity. But while Pitts passionate character waits to make an arms deal for his IRA compatriots back in Ireland, The Devils Own conveniently avoids any detailed understanding of the Northern Ireland conflict, focusing instead on the cops moral dilemma when he discovers that his young guest is a terrorist. The film is superbly acted, & overall its quite worthwhile, but dont look to it for an abundance of plot logic or an in-depth understanding of Protestant-Catholic tensions in Northern Ireland. , .

William Bradley Pitt, widely known as Brad Pitt, is an American film actor. He was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma & raised in Springfield, Missouri. In high school, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government & school musicals. He dropped out of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He was two credits shy of graduating with a Journalism degree, before trying his luck in Hollywood. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators & dressing as a giant chicken while working for the restaurant chain El Pollo Loco. In 1995, he was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 25 sexiest stars in film history. In December 1996, he got engaged to actress Gwyneth Paltrow but the engagement didnt last long & the two split up in June 1997. He married actress Jennifer Aniston on July 29, 2000. Their separation was announced on January 7, 2005. Previous to this, Pitt was involved in long-term relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Extensive tabloid coverage surrounded this relationship. Posters Of Brad Pitt

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Another actor named Harrison Ford has gained fame in movies since the 1970s. Harrison Ford was an American actor in the silent film era of the 1910s & 20s. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Harrison Ford began acting on stage & made his Broadway debut in 1904. He turned to film beginning in 1915 & moved to Hollywood. He became a leading man opposite early stars such as Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Marie Prevost, Marion Davies & Clara Bow. Harrison Ford was one of the actors whose career ended with the advent of talkies, making his final film in 1932. He returned to acting in theatre & also directed productions at the Little Theater of the Verdugos in Glendale, California. During World War II, he toured with the United Service Organizations. In the early 1950s, he was struck by a car while out walking. He never recovered from the severe injuries received & died in 1957 in the Motion Picture & Television Country House & Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale. Posters Of Harrison Ford

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Alan Jay Pakula was an American film producer, writer & director noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre. Pakula was born in New York & educated at Yale, where he majored in drama. He started his Hollywood career as an assistant in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers. In 1957, he undertook his first production role for Paramount Pictures. In 1962, he produced To Kill A Mockingbird, for which he received a Best Picture nomination in the 1963 Academy Awards. In 1969, he directed his first feature, The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minnelli. In 1971, Pakula released the first installment of what would informally come to be known as his paranoia trilogy. Klute, the story of a private eyes relationship with a call girl, was a commercial & critical success. This was followed in 1974 by The Parallax View starring Warren Beatty, a similarly labyrinthine post- Watergate thriller notable for its experimental use of hypnotic imagery in a celebrated film-within-a-film sequence in which the protagonist is inducted into the mysterious Parallax Corporation. Posters Of The Pelican Brief

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