Hidden Agenda (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 15, 2015
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, Brian Cox & Mai Zetterling | |
Performer: | John Benfield, Michelle Fairley, Jim Norton, Maurice Roëves & Ian McElhinney | |
Directed by | Ken Loach | |
Edited by | Jonathan Morris | |
Composition by | Stewart Copeland | |
Produced by | Eric Fellner | |
Director of Photography: | Clive Tickner | |
Executive Production by | John Daly & Derek Gibson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
This quietly explosive film comes to resonate more loudly than melodrama.
New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Hidden Agenda could be accused of being dogmatic (Loach's films frequently slam the U.K. government), but the director keeps a sense of gritty authenticity throughout.
Lawrence Journal-World
There's plenty of evidence of Loach's undiminished power as a film-maker, and equally ample evidence that something is very rotten in the state of Northern Ireland.
Time Out
Rating: 2/4 --
Well-intentioned, but rather murky.
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TV Guide
It's made with the flaggelatory ardour that Ken Loach brings to all his films, a hard edged realism pounded into the mortar of cinema with naturalism
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Urban Cinefile
Ken Loach's Hidden Agenda must be the most buttoned-down movie about a conspiracy theory ever made.
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Washington Post
...Chilling....This quietly explosive film comes to resonate more loudly than melodrama...
New York Times
Product Description:
An implicit condemnation of the repressive tactics of the British government in Northern Ireland, HIDDEN AGENDA stars Brian Cox (THE BOXER), Brad Dourif (MISSISSIPPI BURNING), and Frances McDormand (FARGO). When an American attorney working for a humanitarian group who is investigating the torture of IRA prisoners is killed in Belfast, Inspector Kerrigan (Cox) is sent to investigate the crime. He's joined by Sullivan's fiancée, Ingrid Jessner (McDormand), a lawyer working for the International League of Civil Liberties. They learn that he had been given a tape by a former British army officer named Harris (Maurice Roeves) that contained highly incriminating material concerning the activities of the British government. With some difficulty they track down the elusive officer, leading them to the IRA. This well-made, low-key political thriller was highly controversial upon its release because it cited real names and events in presenting its case for the existence of a conspiracy at the highest levels of the British government.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 90,484
- UPC: 738329178222
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