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The crying game [digital videodisc] / British Screen Productions ; Channel Four Films ; Eurotrustees ; Nippon Film Development and Finance, Inc. ; Palace ; Miramax Films ; produced by Stephen Woolley ; written by Neil Jordan ; directed by Neil Jordan.

Santa Monica, Calif. : Artisan Home Entertainment : Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2004]

Irish Republican Army -- Drama.

Kidnapping victims -- Ireland -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- England -- London -- Drama.

1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Collector's ed., widescreen ed.

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.

Academy Award, 1992: Best original screenplay (Neil Jordan)

London Critics Circle Film Awards, 1993: ALFS Award - British Director of the Year (Neil Jordan); British Producer of the Year (Stephen Woolley); British Screenwriter of the Year (Neil Jordan).

MPAA rating: R; for sexuality, strong violence and language.

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