Summaries

Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare.

In 1993, the IRA member Collette is arrested in the London tube after leaving a bomb in the facility. MI-5 Agent Mac offers a deal to Collette to become an informer. She accepts the agreement to protect her son and in return Mac offers a new identity to her after a period working for the MI-5. Soon Mac learns that his superior Kate Fletcher is using Collette to protect her mole inside the Irish organization. Mac tries to find the identity of the informer and protect Collette.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Details

Keywords
  • 1970s
  • year 1993
  • year 1973
  • the troubles
  • mi5 agent
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Mystery
  • Drama
Release date Aug 23, 2012
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United Kingdom Ireland
Language English
Filming locations Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Production companies BBC Film Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board Element Pictures

Box office

Gross US & Canada $100616
Opening weekend US & Canada $10672
Gross worldwide $2255291

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 41m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

Colette McVeigh: widow, mother, terrorist. A woman who has lived the Republican cause for all her 29 years. A woman whose brothers are both heavily involved at the senior levels in the IRA, whose husband was killed by the British security forces. A woman who is now an informer for MI5. Arrested in an aborted bombing attempt in London, Colette is given two choices: talk and see her children again, or stay silent and spend the rest of her life watching them grow up from behind the bars of a prison cell.

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