# The Crying Game (1992)

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**Runtime**: 112 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Neil Jordan
**Written by**: Neil Jordan
**Starring**: Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Adrian Dunbar, Breffni McKenna

> *...play it at your own risk.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Belfast. Summer dusk. A cricket ball.

Kidnapped soldier and his IRA guard: unlikely friends. A promise made. London calls. The guard flees, finds the lover, but old comrades appear, brandishing guns, testing loyalties.

Jordan’s sensibility elevates this above standard thriller fare.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, paranoid, sexy, tender

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