Terry George
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Terry George (born December 20, 1952) is an Irish screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work (e.g. The Boxer, Some Mother's Son, and In the Name of the Father) involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He has been nominated for two Oscars; Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium in 1993 for In the Name of the Father and Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Hotel Rwanda in 2004.
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The Promise (2016)
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: Christian Bale | Oscar Isaac | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Tom Hollander | Charlotte Le Bon
Whole Lotta Sole (2012)
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster's crew, the young ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: David O'Hara | Colm Meaney | Brendan Fraser | Martin McCann | Yaya Alafia
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Live Action (2012)
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Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Andrew Bowler | Hallvar Witzo | Terry George | Max Zähle | Peter McDonald
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The Shore (2011)
The story of Joe and Paddy, whose childhood friendship is shattered by the troubles in Northern Ireland. Twenty five years later they are reunited.
Runtime: 29 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: Ciarán Hinds | Kerry Condon | Conleth Hill | Maggie Cronin
Reservation Road (2007)
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men (Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo) react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Mark Ruffalo | Elle Fanning | Jennifer Connelly | Sean Curley
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Nick Nolte | Fana Mokoena | Don Cheadle | Sophie Okonedo
A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with the way the war is being run and is forced to leave the military. Returning to Vietnam as a civilian working with the Army, he comes to despise some South ...
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: Amy Madigan | Bill Paxton
Some Mother's Son (1996)
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: David O'Hara | Helen Mirren | John Lynch | Aidan Gillen | Fionnula Flanagan