A Belfast Story

2013 Drama
41%

Belfast is a city with hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, a war without winners, just victims. There is peace, but that can also be deadly. Now when a series of murders awaken dormant memories, many fear the worst.Times are changing, car bombs are less common and terrorists find themselves out of work, but old habits die hard. And while most go quietly into the night, one man must find the few who won't comply.A greying assassin has stopped walking his son to school. With motives buried deep in the Irish conflict, everyone is about to discover that the past matters to someone...

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A Belfast Story

Sometimes press kits arrive in the post, quirky little toys that somehow tie in with the movie - most of the time it's tat, forgettable, throwaway stuff. Independently produced post-Troubles thriller A Belfast Story announced itself with a press kit that one won't forget in hurry - a wooden box sporting a balaclava, nail bomb paraphilia, and other terrorist bric-a-brac. Director Nathan Todd has apologised for the rather tasteless kit, but job done: everyone knew about A Belfast Story. Unfortunately, the film itself isn't as noteworthy.

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