The Outsider

Name: The Outsider
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Released: June 2, 1980
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Bosco Hogan, Craig Wasson, Elizabeth Begley, Frank Grimes, Niall O'Brien

1980

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 2, 1980 | R

Starring: Bosco Hogan, Craig Wasson, Elizabeth Begley, Frank Grimes, Niall O'Brien, Niall Toibin, Patricia Quinn, Ray McAnally, Sterling Hayden, T.P. McKenna

Summary: A young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.

Director: Tony Luraschi

Genre(s): Drama, History, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 128 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

One of the better films concerning the tensions in Northern Ireland, THE OUTSIDER stars Craig Wasson as a young Irish-American inspired by his grandfather's patriotic tales of fighting the British years ago. Read full review

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The Outsider represents the first attempt to get behind the incessant headlines and into the minds and motives at work on one of the longest-fought terrorist campaigns of the times - through an intelligent fictional story with an Irish setting. Read full review

Janet Maslin

The Outsider is vivid even if it isn't much of a character study, and energetic even though it's often clumsy. Read full review

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The "troubles" in Northern Ireland would seem to be an excellent dramatic vehicle: tension, violence, a people torn apart by religious, political, and economic differences. But writer-director Tony Luraschi turns it into a polemic. Speeches replace action and the dialogue is wooden. [14 Feb 2014, p.G31]

Staff (Not Credited)

More confusing than illuminating, it's a film which will rely more on its reputation than its achievement. Read full review

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