The Devil's Own
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| Directed by | Alan J. Pakula |
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| Story by | Kevin Jarre |
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| Music by | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Gordon Willis |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90 million |
| Box office | $140,807,547 (worldwide) |
The Devil's Own is a 1997 American thriller film starring Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Rubén Blades, Natascha McElhone, Julia Stiles, and Treat Williams. It was the final film directed by Alan J. Pakula and the final film photographed by Gordon Willis. It revoles around a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Pitt) comes to the United States in order to obtain anti-aircraft missiles to be used to shoot down British helicopters in Northern Ireland. The plan however, is complicated by an Irish-American policeman (Ford), whom the IRA member has come to regard as family.
In 1972, eight-year old Francis McGuire witnesses his father being gunned down in front of him due to being an Irish republican sympathizer.
By 1992, an adult Francis (Brad Pitt) and three other I.R.A. men are caught up in a firefight in Belfast when members of the British Army try to capture him. One gunman is killed and another, Desmond, is wounded as Frankie and the last gunman, Sean Phelan (Paul Ronan), flee. Hiding out in the countryside, Francis and his friend Martin MacDuf (David O'Hara) see a British Army helicopter circling overhead and decide they need Stinger missiles.
Francis, traveling under the alias "Rory Devaney," is picked up at Newark Airport by IRA sympathizer Judge Peter Fitzsimmons (George Hearn), who has arranged for "Rory" to stay with New York City Police Department Sergeant Tom O'Meara (Harrison Ford), his wife, Sheila (Margaret Colin), and their three daughters in Staten Island. The judge gives Francis a handgun. "Rory" befriends Tom during his stay.
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