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Year: 2010
UK: Artificial Eye
Cast: Mark Womack, Andrew Lowe, John Bishop, Trevor Williams,
Stephen Lord
Director: Ken Loach
Country: UK
UK: 109 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains very strong language and scenes
of torture
UK Release Date: 18 March 2011
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Synopsis
Fergus (Mark Womack) returns to his native Liverpool for the funeral
of his childhood friend Frankie (John Bishop), a fellow private
security contractor who has been killed on Route Irish, the deadly
and now infamous stretch of road between Baghdad airport and the
Green Zone.
Refusing to accept the official account of his best friend’s
death, Fergus launches his own investigation, fuelled by the
discovery of a cell phone on which Frankie had recorded the shooting
of an innocent Iraqi family just days before his own death.
As his investigation ramps up – via frequent skype conversations
with former security colleagues in Iraq and his interrogation of
security firm officials in the UK – Fergus soon draws the heat of
those he is investigating and a once dirty foreign war is
transferred to the streets of Liverpool and pursued on home turf.
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