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VHS : The Crying Game [1992]

starring: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Adrian Dunbar
directed by: Neil Jordan


Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0780063756631 Format: PAL Label: 4 Front Video Manufacturer: 4 Front Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 4 Front Video Release Date: January 22, 1996 Running Time: 107 minutes Sales Rank: 1108 Studio: 4 Front Video Theatrical Release Date: November 25, 1992	Average Rating: List Price: £5.99 Price: £2.25 You Save: £3.74 (62%) Prices subject to change.
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
An IRA film with a difference, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game takes the Anglo-Irish conflict as the starting point for a thoughtful, often poignant and sometimes humorous examination of gender and identity. Stephen Rea is the IRA volunteer who befriends a kidnapped British soldier (the gauche but likeable Forest Whitaker), then takes the questions of loyalty and instinct (the "frog and scorpion" fable) with him to London, where he falls for the dead man's girlfriend (the appealing Jaye Davidson). Love and terrorism are fused in a violent and suspenseful denouement, where truth manifests itself in an unexpected yet meaningful way.

Miranda Richardson and Adrian Dunbar are persuasive as the IRA agents, and there are excellent cameos from Jim Broadbent as an East End barman and Tony Slattery as a property shark, all making the most of Jordan's stylish, Academy Award-winning script. Anne (Art of Noise) Dudley contributes a moodily atmospheric score, with three versions of "When a Man Loves a Woman" to point up the gender issue.

On the DVD: The Crying Game comes to disc with a widescreen picture that reproduces adequately for an early 90s film. The soundtrack, though, has real presence. There are subtitles in English and Russian(!), though the theatrical trailer is hardly a major bonus. An interview or a commentary with Jordan, discussing the motivation behind the project, would really have benefited a film which cuts across genres so successfully as this. --Richard Whitehouse

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Mr Jordan's masterpiece.
This is my favourite film of all time. I know that there are better films, with bigger budgets and stars and all that, but this one is so well written and put together. For me Neil Jordan is a genius. I have watched this film numerous times, in various languages - my girlfriend is German and we each have a copy so sometimes we watch the film in English and sometimes in German, and I once caught it on the TV in Italy dubbed into Italian! The big surprise is a surprise no longer but we still find that ... Read More

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- In the end the story matters more than the infamous surprise
Unfortunately by the time I got to the theater to see "The Crying Game" I already knew about the big surprise. I had been avoiding seeing or hearing anything about the movie and was flipping channels when I paused on David Letterman long enough for him to give away the big surprise. I was no more happy with his off-the cuff revealation than I was when Charles Schulz revealed the ending to "Citizen Kane" one Sunday in "Peanuts." However, in the final analysis what makes Neil Jordan's 1992 film really ... Read More

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- About the film
This is a delightful film about so many things: terrorism, love, sexuality and people who follow their feelings. The plot has some unusual twists that maintain interest to the end. Fergus is a member of an IRA cell that captures and kills a British solder in N.Ireland. He fulfils his victims last request by travelling to London to pass on a message to the soldier's girlfriend. Fergus finds himself attracted to her, but both of them have secrets. Jaye Davidson (Dil) also stars in the film Stargate.

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- A funny thing happened on the way to the assassination
THE CRYING GAME teaches the lesson that terrorists have relationship problems just as messy as other folks.

Jody (Forrest Whitaker), a British soldier stationed in Northern Ireland, is ensnared in a honeytrap by Jude (Miranda Richardson), kidnapped, and held by Irish militants threatening his execution unless one of their own is released by the British authorities. One of Jody's captors is Fergus (Stephen Rea), who forms a sympathetic bond with his prisoner. At one point, Jody shares a photo ... Read More

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- LOVE CONQUERS ALL...AND I MEAN ALL!!!
This is an outstanding and unusual film with a melange of issues. Forest Whitaker, Stephen Rea, and Jaye Davidson all give compelling and moving performances. Miranda Richardson also gives an absorbing performance as a hard nosed IRA terrorist.

The movie begins with IRA terrorists capturing a British soldier named Jodi, affectingly played by Forest Whitaker. One of the erstwhile terrorists, Fergus, sensitively played by Stephen Rea, is on the fringes of the terrorist group and assigned to guard ... Read More

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