In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Acting
Riseborough's face does what scripts fear to write.
Direction
Marsh treats espionage as domestic horror—no glamour, all grime.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like it smells of cigarette smoke and rain.
Director
James Marsh
Andrea Riseborough
Colette McVeigh
Clive Owen
Mac
Gillian Anderson
Kate Fletcher
Aidan Gillen
Gerry
Domhnall Gleeson
Connor
Brid Brennan
Ma
David Wilmot
Kevin Mulville
Stuart Graham
Ian Gilmour
Martin McCann
Brendan
Maria Laird
Young Collette
Barry Barnes
Gerry Senior
Michael McElhatton
Liam Hughes
Gary Lydon
Geoff
Daniel Tatarsky
Watcher
Tom Bennett
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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director James Marsh won an Oscar for the documentary 'Man on Wire'—his first fiction feature keeps that same tightrope tension.
The film was co-written by Tom Bradby, a journalist who covered Northern Ireland for ITV News; his novel source material drew from real informer cases that still haunt Belfast.
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