The Crying Game

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Call Number: DVD Drama Crying
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1992.
Release date: Jul. 3, 2012.
Special features: director commentary; alternate ending; alternated ending with director commentary; Northern Troubles featurette; The making of 'The crying game': Irish luck, English love; The marketing of an American Independent & discussing 'The crying game''; Modern day at Madame Jojo's; trailers.
Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker.
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. His starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background. But there are some things about Dil that Fergus does not know either.
DVD, widescreen; 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

put me to sleep more than once submitted by Jackie77 on August 25, 2015, 2:23am This movie was boring. Forest whitaker does a superb job playing kidnap victim. The rest of the movie dragged on and on.

A modern dilemma submitted by ccrose on August 27, 2019, 3:55pm How two people bond over a shared experience makes emotional sense. Each have lost someone who had brought each of them honesty. Ferguson delivers the last message to Dil, girlfriend of a man Ferguson guarded and became sympathetic to.
Without guile, the two fall in love only to have a hurdle, a kind of lie, to face.
I loved the twist here, one I’d never thought about before.