The Devil's Own is a 1997 movie starring Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Rubén Blades, Natascha McElhone, Julia Stiles and Treat Williams. It was the final film directed by Alan J. Pakula.
In 1972, eight year old Francis Austin McGuire lives in Northern Ireland with his father, mother and sister. One night, his father, a Republican sympathizer, is gunned down by a masked Loyalist gunman at the dinner table. 20 years later in September 1992, Frankie (Br...
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The Devil's Own is a 1997 movie starring Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Rubén Blades, Natascha McElhone, Julia Stiles and Treat Williams. It was the final film directed by Alan J. Pakula.
In 1972, eight year old Francis Austin McGuire lives in Northern Ireland with his father, mother and sister. One night, his father, a Republican sympathizer, is gunned down by a masked Loyalist gunman at the dinner table. 20 years later in September 1992, Frankie (Brad Pitt), now a grown man, has become a member of the Provisional IRA. In Belfast, Frankie and his team get caught up in a battle against British soldiers pursing Frankie. After a tense gun fight in the street, Frankie escapes. British agent Harry Sloan (Simon Jones) kills Frankie's colleague after he refuses to tell Sloan where Frankie is.
Frankie escapes to a safe house in the countryside where he meets up with Martin MacDuf. MacDuf tells him that the IRA are in need of surface-to-air missiles. Five months later in February 1993, Frankie...
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