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Release Date: 2012
Cast: Nayef Rashed, Linus Roache, Ian Hart
Categories: Movies, Prison, Drama Film
Blind Flight is a 2004 British film, directed by John Furse, starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache. It is based on the true-life story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of the Irish academic Brian Keenan and the English journalist John McCarthy, two of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. The film is based on Keenan's memoir, An Evil Cradling and Some Other Rainbow by John McCarthy who was a screenplay consultant. The film received widespread critical acclaim, being nominated for six awards, and winning a BAFTA.
Brian Keenan, a humorless bearded Irish academic, has moved to Beirut in... MORE
Blind Flight is a 2004 British film, directed by John Furse, starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache. It is based on the true-life story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of the Irish academic Brian Keenan and the English journalist John McCarthy, two of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. The film is based on Keenan's memoir, An Evil Cradling and Some Other Rainbow by John McCarthy who was a screenplay consultant. The film received widespread critical acclaim, being nominated for six awards, and winning a BAFTA.
Brian Keenan, a humorless bearded Irish academic, has moved to Beirut in the mid 1980s and works as an English teacher. As he left for work one day, four armed men in a car kidnapped him and he is incarcerated. Keenan wakes up, almost naked, alone in an iron-clad room. Initially he refuses to eat until he is told why he is being held prisoner. He is kept is on his own but eventually he is moved into a cell in a deserted house, where he is joined by another hostage, the English journalist John Mc Carthy, who had been actually reporting on Keenan’s kidnapping not long before he himself was abducted. The grumpy Brit-hating Irishman and the more pliable British journalist LESS
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