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Cal ★★★ 1984 (R)

Cal (Lynch), a young Catholic man, is reluctantly recruitbars ed into the Irish Republican Army. He falls in love with the older Marcella (Mirren), the widow of a Protestant policeman whom he helped kill while acting as the get-away driver for his fellow Republicans. Thoughtit ful and tragic, with excellent performances; set in Northern Ireland. 104m/C VHS . IR Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, Kitty Gibson, Ray McAnally, John Kav-Taranagh; D: Pat O'Connor; W: Bernard MacLaverty; M: Mark Knopfler. Cannes '84: Actress (Mirren).

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