We'll Support You Evermore

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We'll Support You Evermore
Directed byDouglas Livingstone
Screenplay byDouglas Livingstone
Starring
Production
company
BBC
Release date
  • 1985 (1985) [1]
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

We'll Support You Evermore is a British television movie of 1985 written and directed by Douglas Livingstone, starring John Thaw and Ciarán Hinds, about a troubled period in the history of Northern Ireland.

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Outline

Geoff Hollins (John Thaw) is the father of David Hollins (Christopher Fulford), a young British Army officer serving in Northern Ireland who has been found brutally murdered. The circumstances are mysterious, even before Hollins finds his son's girlfriend Siobhan O'Hagan (Paula Hamilton) is the sister of Liam O'Hagan (Ciarán Hinds), the Provisional IRA man charged with the murder. The intelligence service tries to stop Hollins from attending the trial, and then all charges against O'Hagan are dropped without explanation. Hollins investigates the murder of his son. [2]

Reception

The Listener gave the film an enthusiastic review and commented that it was "set in that last remnant of Empire, Northern Ireland". [1]

Cast

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The Listener , Volume 114 (1985), p. 39
  2. Alwyn W. Turner, Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s (Aurum, 2010), p. 90