Michael Collins

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Michael Collins

film by Jordan [1996]

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Neil Jordan
The Crying Game and Hollywood success
Jordan subsequently wrote and directed Michael Collins (1996), a biopic of the Irish independence leader (Liam Neeson); The Butcher Boy (1997), a dark comedy based on Pat McCabe’s celebrated novel about a troubled young boy; and The End of the Affair (1999), a romantic drama based on the Graham Greene…
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Jordan subsequently wrote and directed Michael Collins (1996), a biopic of the Irish independence leader (Liam Neeson); The Butcher Boy (1997), a dark comedy based on Pat McCabe’s celebrated novel about a troubled young boy; and The End of the Affair (1999), a romantic drama based on the Graham Greene…
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Liam Neeson
The 1990s
… and the Irish revolutionary in Michael Collins. In 1998 he appeared as Jean Valjean in a film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. That year he also returned to the stage to portray Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss in London and on Broadway. In 1999 Neeson starred as a…
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… and the Irish revolutionary in Michael Collins. In 1998 he appeared as Jean Valjean in a film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. That year he also returned to the stage to portray Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss in London and on Broadway. In 1999 Neeson starred as a…
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