The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Acting
Gleeson creates a criminal you can't look away from—charming, terrifying, pathetic.
Direction
Boorman shoots Dublin like a character—grey, specific, unexpectedly beautiful.
Writing
Refuses to glorify Cahill while understanding exactly why people did.
Director
John Boorman
Brendan Gleeson
Martin Cahill
Adrian Dunbar
Noel Curley
Sean McGinley
Gary
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Frances
Angeline Ball
Tina
Jon Voight
Inspector Ned Kenny
Eanna MacLiam
Jimmy
Tom Murphy
Willie Byrne
John Cronin
Aiden
Paul Hickey
Anthony
Ciarán Fitzgerald
Tommy
Ned Dennehy
Gay
Pat Laffan
Sgt. Patrick Higgins
Eamonn Owens
Young Martin Cahill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Martin Cahill was murdered in 1994; Boorman filmed in Cahill's actual neighborhood with locals who knew him, some of whom appear as extras.
Cahill's 1986 Russborough House art heist remains Ireland's biggest property crime; paintings weren't fully recovered until 2002, and the case exposed corruption between criminals and paramilitaries.
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