| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Rating: | R |
| Cast: | Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts, Charles Dance,and Ian Hart. |
| Credits: | Written and directed by Neil Jordan. |
| Awards: | Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for Best Picture of 1996 and the Festival's Best Actor Award for Liam Neeson. |
MICHAEL COLLINS is Neil Jordan's epic portrayal of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins, one of the 20th century's most significant yet overlooked political figures.
In Ireland, where national pride is a passion akin to religion and romantic love, one man became a legend for his fierce devotion to his land and its independence. Liam Neeson stars as Michael Collins in a story about the real-life patriot whose bravery and unswerving dedication to the Irish people changed history as it made him into a legend. Collins' quest would bring a man raised on war into an even more dangerous battle for peace. It would cost him his life but would make him a hero for the ages.
Collins' efforts to create a free and peaceful country, like the epic history of Ireland itself, would encompass romance and violence, valor and rage, burning hope and fiery tragedy. It would result in both the triumph of a free Irish Republic and the terror in Northern Ireland that continues to make bloody headlines today. And it would forever change the ways people wage wars of independence.
Academy Award-winner Neil Jordan writes and directs Geffen Pictures' MICHAEL COLLINS, teaming with Academy Award-nominees Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts and producer Stephen Woolley. The film is an historical epic about an extraordinary individual whose example inspired the struggles for freedom of small nations around the world.
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