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As the Beast Sleeps (2002)
Directed by Harry Bradbeer
Overview
Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. “As the Beast Sleeps” is set in Belfast’s Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.
Length 75 minutes
Actors
Stuart Graham | Patrick O'Kane | Laine Megaw | Daniel McGrady | Conor Grimes | Alan McKee | Lalor Roddy | Gerard Jordan | Michael Liebman | Packy Lee | Frank McCusker | Moya O'Hara | Sean Kearns | Dick Holland | Colum Convey | David Hayman | Tom Magill | Tom Collins