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Synopsis: Based on Martin McGartland's shocking real life story. Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in the process.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Kari Skogland
Production: Phase 4 Films
  7 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
R
Year:
2008
117 min
$1,748,442
Website
149 Views


He sold stolen goods in Catholic areas

against strict IRA rules...

which were brutally enforced.

Are we done?

Can I go now, please?

That meant he wasn't afraid of them.

All right.

Thank you very much.

Which is why I also knew

I could trust him.

Well?

I'll take him out on a road test.

If he's useless, I'll give him to Ml5,

tell them he's bloody brilliant.

Jeez, Paddy. You watching

your family videos again?

Ray here came by to make

your acquaintance.

Marty's been working for me.

Like I say, he's a good lad.

-ls he?

-F*** this.

Didn't have anything on you, did they?

Here you go, Paddy.

Oh, Jesus.

How you doing, Ray?

So, Martin, Sean here says

you're a good man.

Look, man, I didn't see nothing.

That's true, you didn't,

and you'll do well to remember that.

I know your ma.

She's a good woman.

-Thanks for what you did today.

-Aye, no problem.

We'll not forget it.

Aye.

Sean, man, how do you know him?

He's lRA.

-ls he now?

-Yeah, he is.

Where's me money?

Paddy, is there any chance of getting

a pair of these, like, in black?

Size 8?

Please, God, no, it's a pipe. It's just

a pipe! The bathroom's just upstairs.

Do I look like I shot anybody?

What reason could you have

to search my house for guns?

-I live here, okay?

-2 officers have just been shot.

What else do I need know?

Where were you 2 hours ago?

I was playing football, man.

Where were you?

-Bullshit!

-Don't! Don't!

I didn't raise you to be thick

as a plank!

Listen. If I find out you were

anywhere near this trouble...

I'll drag you to the police myself!

But I had nothing to do with it!

Evil can only do its work if decent

ordinary people turn a blind eye...

-even if only for a moment.

-Keep searching!

He's made an impression on the lRA,

for sure, right up the line.

From here on, I'm out.

Can't figure out what you'd want

with a 10p hood like him.

What's this? Huh? What's this?

What, you were heading round your Ma's

house and doing a wee bit of fixing?

Wouldn't be for stealing cars,

would it? Not our Frankie.

Breaking into people's houses?

Yeah? Yeah?

Joyriding their cars?

Now I'm hearing about drugs?

These are crimes against the community,

and you've been found guilty.

It's not me. I swear.

What?

Help, help!

F***!

What the...

F***ing sh*t, is that it?

Well, you're one lucky f***er, Frankie.

If I'd have brought my.097, your

football career would've been done for.

You want this lying down

or standing up?

-Standing.

-Right.

No! F***ing leave him!

Leave him!

-My jeans!

-F*** your jeans.

The peelers mightn't give a sh*t

about our community...

and how you wankers like you who f***

it up for everyone, but we do, so...

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Martin McGartland

Martin McGartland (born 30 January 1970, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former British informer who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1989 to pass information to RUC Special Branch. When he was exposed as an informer in 1991 he was abducted by the IRA, but escaped and was resettled in England. His identity became publicly known after a minor court case. He was later shot six times by a gunman, but recovered from the injuries. He has written two books about his life, Fifty Dead Men Walking: The Terrifying True Story of a IRA grass and Dead Man Running. more…

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