Shadow Dancer

Shadow Dancer Information

Shadow Dancer is a 2012 British-Irish drama film directed by James Marsh and based on the novel of the same name by Tom Bradby who also wrote the film's script. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was screened out of competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.

Plot

In 1993 Belfast, Collette lives with her mother and brothers, all member of the IRA. After a failed attack in London, Collette is arrested and offered a choice: either she spends 25 years in jail, and thus losing everything she loves including her young son, or she becomes an informant for MI5, spying on her own family.

Cast

Clive Owen as Mac
Andrea Riseborough as Colette McVeigh
Gillian Anderson as Kate Fletcher
Aidan Gillen as Gerry
Domhnall Gleeson as Connor
Brid Brennan as Ma
David Wilmot as Kevin Mulville
Stuart Graham as Ian Gilmour
Martin McCann as Brendan

Reception

Previews before the films release have been positive, and currently holds a "Fresh" rating of 82%, based on 69 reviews, at Rotten Tomatoes. British film magazine Empire giving it a score of 4 out of 5 stars, calling it "an intelligent and emotionally charged spy drama." The Guardian called it "a slow-burning but brilliant thriller about an IRA sympathiser forced to become an informant by MI5."

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