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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Kevin O'Neill, Gerard Jordan, Jonathan Harden, Mathew McElhinney, Paula McFetridge, Juliet Crawford, Liam Neeson, Conor MacNeill, Anamaria Marinca, Katy Gleadhill, James Nesbitt, Niamh Cusack ...MORE

Cast: Kevin O'Neill, Gerard Jordan, Jonathan Harden, Mathew McElhinney, Paula McFetridge, Juliet Crawford, Liam Neeson, Conor MacNeill, Anamaria Marinca, Katy Gleadhill, James Nesbitt, Niamh Cusack, Paul Garret, Richard Dormer, Diarmuid Noyes, Gerry Doherty, Mark David ...LESS

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Five Minutes of Heaven is a British/Irish film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a script by Guy Hibbert. The film was premiered on January 19, 2009 at the 25th Sundance Film Festival where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award for Oliver Hirschbiegel, and the World Cinema Screenwriting Award for Guy Hibbert. It was broadcast on BBC Two on 5 April 2009, and also had an international theatrical release. The first part reconstructs the historical killing of 19-year-old Jim Griffin by 17-year-old Alistair Little in 1975, and the second part depicts a fictional meeting between... MORE

Five Minutes of Heaven is a British/Irish film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a script by Guy Hibbert. The film was premiered on January 19, 2009 at the 25th Sundance Film Festival where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award for Oliver Hirschbiegel, and the World Cinema Screenwriting Award for Guy Hibbert. It was broadcast on BBC Two on 5 April 2009, and also had an international theatrical release. The first part reconstructs the historical killing of 19-year-old Jim Griffin by 17-year-old Alistair Little in 1975, and the second part depicts a fictional meeting between Little and Jim's brother Joe 33 years later. Lurgan, Northern Ireland, 1975. The Northern Irish Troubles are underway, with the Irish Republican Army targeting British loyalists and the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force exacting revenge on Catholics they claim are militant republicans. Alistair Little, 17, is the leader of a UVF cell, eager to be blooded. He and his gang are given the go-ahead to kill a young Catholic man, James Griffin, as a reprisal and a warning to others. When the hit is carried out, Joe Griffin - the 8-year old little brother of the target - watches in horror as his brother is LESS