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If you make a mistake, I’m dead -- right? I’d like to know your name.
Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer (Mac) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son’s life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in Mac and return home, but when her brothers’ secret operation is ambushed, suspicions of an informant are raised and Collette finds both herself and her family in grave danger.
Winner of the British Independent Film Award and London Critics Circle Best British Actress Award and BAFTA Rising Star nominee, Andrea Riseborough.
Winner of Best Supporting Actress for Brid Brennan, and nominated for three other Irish Film and Television Awards, including Best Film, Best Supporting Actor for David Wilmot, and Make Up and Hair for Lynn Johnston & Eileen Buggy.
Shadow Dancer director James Marsh and writer Tom Bradby talk to BBC Films about the film
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