The Run of the Country (1995)
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Directors
Peter Yates
Cast
Albert Finney, Matt Keeslar, Victoria Smurfit
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The story tells of a political and generational conflict in a teen romance and coming-of-age story in Ireland. Albert Finney stars as a policeman with the Garda Síochána in a small County Cavan village just south of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. The sergeant, with nothing to do, hopes for just one murder to solve and make himself famous.
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