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Shadow Dancer is a British film of genre Drama directed by James Marsh released in USA on 31 may 2013 with Clive Owen
Shadow Dancer (2012)
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Add to a movie listShadow Dancer is a 2012 British-Irish drama film directed by James Marsh and based on the novel of the same name by Tom Bradby who also wrote the film's script. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was screened out of competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.
Synopsis
In 1993 Belfast, Colette lives with her mother and brothers, all members of the IRA. In the opening scene, set twenty years earlier, the Troubles results in the death of her younger brother when they are children. This presumably motivates her in later life. After a failed attack in London, Colette is arrested and offered a choice: either she spends 25 years in jail, thus losing everything she loves including her young son, or she becomes an informant for MI5, spying on her own family. Colette agrees to do so. An MI5 officer, Mac, is assigned as her handler.Actors
Clive Owen
(Mac)
Andrea Riseborough
(Colette McVeigh)
Gillian Anderson
(Kate Fletcher)
Aidan Gillen
(Gerry)
Domhnall Gleeson
(Connor)
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