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  • Shadow Dancer Tomatometer 93%
  • Shadow Dancer FlixsterFan Score 84%



Description: Single mother Collette McVeigh (Andrea Riseborough) is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer Mac (Clive Owen) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son's life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in Mac and return home, but when her brothers' secret operation is ambushed, suspicions of an informant are raised and Collette finds both herself and her family in grave danger.

Genre: Thriller

Studio: Paramount Pictures International

Offical Website: http://www.magpictures.com/shadowdancer/

Rating: Movie Rating


Release Dates:

Country Release Type Date
United Kingdom Theatrical Wide Release 8/25/2012
United States Theatrical Limited Release 5/31/2013
United States On Demand Release 4/25/2013


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» New news article added from Film School Rejects.
03/28/2012 @ 9:07 AM

Zooey Deschanel Might Time Travel for ‘Love, Actually’ Director Richard Curtis

In what sounds like a very cool (schmoopy romance can be cool right?) project, Richard Curtis is writing and directing About Time &#8211 a story focusing on a young man named Tim who finds out that he's one in a long line of time travelers. That comes with some impressive powers, no doubt. Groundhog Day-like powers. Or the ability to go back and make sure Hitler wasn't born or something important like knowing all the right questions in class or on dates. According to Variety, the production is looking at Zooey Deschanel as the leading love interest which means the costume department will be searching on ModCloth and she'll get to sing a song. While we all fall in love with her manic big-eyed dreamgirlness. Right now, Tim the Time Traveler is being played by Domhnall Gleeson (Bill Weasley in Harry Potter, Shadow Dancer and Anna Karenina). All in all, it sounds like a potentially large (Read More)

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» New review added from Rotten Tomatoes.
01/27/2012 @ 12:00 AM

Riseborough gives a tremendously vulnerable and resolute turn as a protector at home and avenger abroad forced to reconsider the extent to which she is capable of avoiding the crossfire on all sides.
William Goss, Film.com

» New review added from Rotten Tomatoes.
01/25/2012 @ 12:00 AM

The occasional flareup of violence notwithstanding, it's Riseborough's performance that provides the primary source of suspense.
Justin Chang, Variety

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