The Devils Own

Image Not Available Director: Alan J Pakula Dvd Release: 12th October, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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The Devils Own is a 1997 movie starring Brad Pitt & Harrison Ford. Brad Pitt plays an Irish man who is a member of the IRA, while Harrison Ford plays the American man who agrees to host him in his home. Turmoil arises; however, Harrision Fords character slowly discovers Brad Pitts true identity. The movie ends with a surprise twist. THE DEVIL’S OWN, Alan J Pakulas last film, is a character-driven thriller that confronts suspense & gritty realism head-on. Harrison Ford plays Tom OMeara, an Irish-American cop in New York who opens his home & family to Francis Austin Frankie McGuire, whom they believe is a refuge-seeking immigrant from Belfast. They later discover that their visitor is an IRA rebel on a terrorist mission. Buoyed by tense, strong performances from both stars, the film is ultimately a tragedy that explores the unexpected friendship of two men of similar ethnic roots, yet of different places, times & values & the cruel & senseless cycle of violence they face.

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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