The Devil's Own is a 1997 action thriller movie starring Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Rubén Blades, Natascha McElhone, Julia Stiles and Treat Williams. It was the final film directed by Alan J. Pakula. In 1972, during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, an eight-year-old boy sees his father gunned down due to his Irish republican sympathies. September 1992 sees the grown-up Francis "Frankie" McGuire as an I.R.A. gunman, with a ski mask and an automatic weapon, in a street fight in Belfast. Hiding in the countryside, he and friend Martin MacDuf see a British Army helicopter circling overhead... and decide they need Stinger missiles. Five months later, Frankie, traveling as "Rory Devaney", is picked up at Newark Airport by IRA sympathizer Peter Fitzsimmons , a judge, who has arranged for "Rory" to stay with an unknowing New York policeman, Sergeant Tom O'Meara , his wife, Sheila , and their three daughters. The judge gives Frankie a handgun. Next, Rory meets up with his friend Sean Phelan , another I.R.A.
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| Release date: | March 13, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Alan J. Pakula |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Producer: | Lawrence Gordon, Robert F. Colesberry |
| Editor: | Dennis Virkler, Tom Rolf |
| Music by: | James Horner |
| Cinematography: | Gordon Willis |
| Screenplay by: | Kevin Jarre, David Aaron Cohen, Vincent Patrick |
| Estimated budget: | $90,000,000 |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |