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- 1980
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 2 m
- 1980
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 2 m
Summary A young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.
Directed By: Tony Luraschi
Written By: Colin Leinster, Tony Luraschi
- 1980
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 2 m
- 1980
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 2 h 2 m
The Outsider
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Summary A young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.
Directed By: Tony Luraschi
Written By: Colin Leinster, Tony Luraschi
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Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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40% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
63
60% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
40% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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One of the better films concerning the tensions in Northern Ireland, THE OUTSIDER stars Craig Wasson as a young Irish-American inspired by his grandfather's patriotic tales of fighting the British years ago.
The Outsider represents the first attempt to get behind the incessant headlines and into the minds and motives at work on one of the longest-fought terrorist campaigns of the times - through an intelligent fictional story with an Irish setting.
The Outsider is vivid even if it isn't much of a character study, and energetic even though it's often clumsy.
The "troubles" in Northern Ireland would seem to be an excellent dramatic vehicle: tension, violence, a people torn apart by religious, political, and economic differences. But writer-director Tony Luraschi turns it into a polemic. Speeches replace action and the dialogue is wooden. [14 Feb 2014, p.G31]
More confusing than illuminating, it's a film which will rely more on its reputation than its achievement.
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