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The General

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The General
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R,2hrs 3min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
December 18, 1998
Director:
John Boorman
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Classics
Starring:
Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Jon Voight  ...more
Synopsis: John Boorman, who won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival's Direction award for this film, previously won the same Cannes award almost three decades earlier for his Leo the Last (1969) about an alienated aristocrat in a London slum. Shot in widescreen color (but printed in sharp black-and-white), The General is a biographical portrait of ruthless Irish crime lord Martin Cahill, shot down outside his home by a single assassin on August 18, 1994. After this opening, the film then unfolds as a lengthy flashback ... Full Synopsis
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Keith Phipps, AMG Review
By the time John Boorman shot The General, its subject had already entered the realm of contemporary folklore. A gangster killed by the police in 1994, Martin Cahill gets the full treatment from Boorman, who does an impressive job of explaining his way of life without excusing it, showing the desperation of his origins without glamorizing his crimes. He's assisted by a tremendously believable performance ... Full Review
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Brendan Gleeson
Martin Cahill
Adrian Dunbar
Noel Curley
Jon Voight
Inspector Ned Kenny
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Frances
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