The Crying Game

Name: The Crying Game
Genre: Crime, Romance, Drama
Released: 1992
Duration: 112 min
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea, Adrian Dunbar, Breffni McKenna

Neil Jordan19921h 52mCrime, Romance, Drama

Why we chose it

Stephen Rea and Forest Whitaker get one night to talk in a political thriller that is also a sensual neo-noir and a hard look at what love is. Neil Jordan (“Interview with the Vampire”) struggled to get it financed, then won an Oscar for the screenplay. And there’s a twist nobody gives away.

Synopsis

At a funfair somewhere in Northern Ireland, Jude chats up Jody, a British soldier, and leads him straight into the hands of an IRA unit. There are three days to secure a prisoner exchange, and Fergus is the one guarding him. By dawn the two men like each other, so Jody asks one thing in case he doesn’t make it: that Fergus find Dil in London and give her a message.