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Hidden Agenda

Duration:
108 min | Argentina:106 min
Genres:
Drama | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7
Director:
Ken Loach
Awards:
2 wins & 3 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Filming Locations: Northern Ireland, UK
Earnings
Gross: $1,030,938 (USA) Filming Dates August 1989 Copyright Holder © 1990 Hemdale Film Corporation Related Links
Cast
Actor
Character
Frances McDormand
Ingrid Jessner
Brian Cox
Kerrigan
Brad Dourif
Paul Sullivan
Bernard Archard
Sir Robert Neil
Maureen Bell
Mrs. Molloy
John Benfield
Maxwell
Bernard Bloch
Henri
Stephen Brigden
Army major
Victoria D'Angelo
Journalist
Kym Dyson
Carol
Michelle Fairley
Teresa Doyle
Gerry Fearon
Taxi driver
Llew Gardner
TV announcer
Ron Kavana
Musician
Patrick Kavanagh
Alec Nevin
John Keegan
Det. Sgt. Hughes
Ivan Little
TV reporter
Oliver Maguire
Supt. Fraser
Des McAleer
Sgt. Kennedy
Jim McAllister
Liam Philbin
Brian McCann
Molloy
John McDonnell
Labour MP
Ian McElhinney
Jack Cunningham
Mandy McIlwaine
RUC policewoman
Jim Norton
Brodie
Robert Patterson
Ian Logan
Maurice Roëves
Harris
Kate Smith
Reporter
George Staines
McKee
Terry Woods
Musician
Mildred Shay
Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
Margaret Wheldon
Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
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Trivia
Frances McDormand and Brad Dourif also played a couple in another social and politically charged movie, in Mississippi Burning (1988).
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The real case referred by a politician in order to discredit Kerrigan and the British police work was used as the basis of In the Name of the Father (1993), a movie that also dealt with the troubles in Ireland.
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The 'Six Irishmen,' mentioned by Sir Robert Neil of MI5 (with politician Alec Nevin) to Kerrigan is in reference to the 'Birmingham Six.' In 1974 the pub Tavern In The Town and Mulberry Bush, in Birmingham England, was bombed killing 21 injuring 182. The police picked up the nearest six Irishmen and subjected them to 'in-depth interrogation' to obtain false confessions. Patrick Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power, John Walker and Hugh Callaghan all served 16 horrific years in jail until the convictions were overturned in 1991. Hugh Callaghan details his ordeal in the book, *Cruel Fate,* co-authored with Sally Mulready in 1994-1995. The movie 'In The Name Of The Father,' was based on the Guildford Four, who were similarly jailed using false confessions, along with members of their extended family living in London (that's how the Brits induced Gerry Conlon, Daniel Day Lewis' character, to confess, by throwing his father, aunts, uncles, and cousins in jail, too). Members of the Guildford Four ordeal were released in 1989 and 1991, where illegal police tactics and hidden evidence were brought to light. The appeals trials of the Guildford Four paved the way for the release of the Birmingham Six, who were in jail longer and their pleas for appeals were ignored and never heard until after the Guildford Four/Conlon Family convictions were finally thrown out. All of the innocent Birmingham Six and Guildford Four were still in jail at the time this movie was released.
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Quotes
Kerrigan: Go back to America. Get out of Belfast, you're in danger here. Ingrid, it's finished.
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Ingrid Jessner: Are you going to do anything about this?
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Maxwell: Can we go?
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Photos from cast
Mai Zetterling
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