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Blind Flight is a British film of genre Drama released in USA on 3 may 2004 with Linus Roache

Blind Flight (2004)

Blind Flight
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Released in USA 3 may 2004
Length 1h37
Genres Drama
Rating67% 3.3917153.3917153.3917153.3917153.391715

Blind Flight is a 2003 British film directed by John Furse, starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache. It is based on the true-life story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of the Irish academic Brian Keenan and the English journalist John McCarthy, two of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. The film is based on Keenan's memoir, An Evil Cradling and Some Other Rainbow by John McCarthy who was a screenplay consultant. The film received widespread critical acclaim, being nominated for six awards, and winning a BAFTA.

Synopsis

Brian Keenan, a humourless bearded Irish academic, has moved to Beirut in the mid 1980s and works as an English teacher. As he leaves for work one day, four armed men in a car kidnap him and he is incarcerated. Keenan wakes up, almost naked, alone in an iron-clad room. Initially he refuses to eat until he is told why he is being held prisoner. He is kept on his own but eventually he is moved into a cell in a deserted house, where he is joined by another hostage, the English journalist John McCarthy, who had been reporting on Keenan’s kidnapping not long before he himself was abducted. The grumpy Brit-hating Irishman and the more pliable British journalist are forced to share their small prison cell.

Actors

Linus Roache

(John McCarthy)Ian Hart

(Brian Keenan)Nayef Rashed

(Militia leader)Lynn Farleigh

(John's Mother)
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