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Shadow Dancer
MEANRANK
65/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 52, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 85. Critics average 78, everyone else 59.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA is captured by British intelligence and given an ultimatum: become an informant against her own family or go to prison, separated from her young son. Forced into betrayal, she returns to her community as a reluctant spy, living in constant fear of discovery by her brothers and comrades, which would mean certain death.
Details
- Director
- James Marsh
- Writer
- Tom Bradby
- Based on
- a work by Tom Bradby
- Studio
- BBC Film, Element Pictures, Lipsync Productions, UKFS
- Released
- 12 February 2012
- Country
- France, Ireland, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.3M
- Box office
- $1.8M
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