This bleak but beautiful love story, set amidst Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant conflict, follows the title character (Lynch), a confused, 19-year-old Catholic who is more interested in blues music than in joining the Irish Republican Army. He lives with his genteel, widowed father
(McCann) in a quiet, Protestant neighborhood, where the boy meets Mirren, the widow of a policeman murdered a year earlier in an IRA bombing. Lynch and Mirren fall in love, but Lynch keeps a terrible secret from her regarding her husband's murder. Meanwhile, Lynch and his father are the victims of
Protestant threats and must stay up nights to defend their home. CAL succeeds in pai...
Released:
1984
Rated:
R
Length:
102 mins