Five Minutes in Heaven
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Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Andy - Niamh Cusack Alistair's Mum - Mathew McElhinney Stuart - Conor MacNeill Dave - Paul Garrett Alistair's Dad - Kevin O'Neill Young Joe - Gerard Jordan Jim - Paula McFetridge Joe's Mum - Gerry Doherty Joe's Dad - Luke O'Reilly Brother Dan - Luke McEvoy Brother John - Aoibheann Biddle Sister 1 - Ruth Matthewson Sister 2 - Carol Moore To face the future, they must face the past. Edit Details Official Sites: Color Black and White archive footage.
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Trivia Liam Neeson was raised a Catholic and portrays a Protestant. James Nesbitt was raised a Protestant and portrays a Catholic.
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Goofs When Joe and Vika are smoking on the balcony, the scene cuts to show Alistair arriving. The camera shows the house from the front, and the balcony where Joe and Vika are smoking is visible, but they are not there, nor is Alistair's car shown coming up the driveway. Quotes [ first lines ] Young Alistair - At that time, don't forget, there were riots on the streets every week; petrol bombs everyday, and that was just in our town.
When you got home and switched on the TV, you could see what was happening in every other town as well, and it was like we were under siege.
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Frequently Asked Questions Q: Why were the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland "at war" with each other? Why did Alistair want to kill Jim?
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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 year old little brother of the target - watches in horror his brother is shot in the head. Thirty years later Joe Griffin and Alistair are to meet, on camera, with a view to reconciliation. Alistair has served his sentence, and Peace may been agreed in N. Ireland, but unbeknownst to the production team, Joe Griffin, is not coming on the program for a handshake but to stick a knife in his brother's killer - live on air.
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Powerhouse performances by Liam Neeson and James Nesbit make this an intense, ultimately moving tale. Time Out - David Fear.
Five Minutes of Heaven
Club - Sam Adams. Los Angeles Times - Gary Goldstein. Ultimately, Five Minutes of Heaven is stronger as a whole than its individual parts.
It's a well-performed piece that perhaps required a more calibrated hand than Hirschbiegel's proves here. Salon - Andrew O'Hehir. Captures the awful intimacy and the grimy, second-rate quality of the Northern Ireland conflict in resonant fashion. Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum. A forceful Neeson and an even more intense Nesbitt Bloody Sunday both show their stuff and obscure the unrelieved pain endured by the men they portray. Early scenes set up the tragedy, but the majority of Oliver Hirschbiegel's movie is set in a TV studio where the two eventually face each other, and the tension, unfortunately, quickly becomes stagey.
DeborahT Nov 17, This was a powerful film that left me haunted.
JoseC Oct 8, Great performances,well directed but uneven script. StevenF Jun 2, Tension is perhaps a writer's best friend, reaching out to an audience is a tough task, not everyone will be pleased, but with tension there is always that sense of uncertainty, and where Five Minutes of Heaven succeeds in building tension, through a simple 'handshake' between two men, it Tension is perhaps a writer's best friend, reaching out to an audience is a tough task, not everyone will be pleased, but with tension there is always that sense of uncertainty, and where Five Minutes of Heaven succeeds in building tension, through a simple 'handshake' between two men, it also falters in maintaining a fluid story, and not visiting plot points it should have.
A 17 year-old UVF cell leader known as Alistair Little is about to take the life of Catholic man as a warning to others in the same working environment.