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Divorcing Jack is a film of genre Comedy directed by David Caffrey with David Thewlis
Divorcing Jack (1998)
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Add to a movie listDivorcing Jack is a 1998 satirical black comedy. The plot is set around the Northern Irish reporter Dan Starkey who gets entangled into a web of political intrigue and Irish sectarian violence, at the same time as Northern Ireland is set to elect a new Prime Minister. Writer Colin Bateman adapted his own book as the screenplay.
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Dan (David Thewlis) un chroniqueur irlandais et Charles Parker (Richard Gant) journaliste américain sont envoyés pour couvrir les prochaines élections.Actors
David Thewlis
(Dan Starkey)
Jason Isaacs
(Cow Pat Keegan)
Laura Fraser
(Margaret)
Robert Lindsay
(Michael Brinn)
Richard Gant
(Charles Parker)
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