Mickey Rourke (Sin City, The Wrestler, Angel Heart, lron Man 2) gives ""his finest performance to date"" (L.A. Weekly) in this hair-trigger action-thriIIer co-starring Bob Hoskins (Enemy at the Gates, The Long Good Friday, Super Mario, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Alan Bates (The Sum of AlI Fears, Gosford Park, The Mothman Prophecies) and Liam Neeson (SchindIer’s List, Kinsey, The A-Team). A gritty tale of retribution and redemption, A Prayer for the Dying has ""a brisk styIe and an edgy rhythm"" (The New York Times) that wilI keep your heart racing in suspense until the final frame!
Tormented lRA revolutionary Martin Fallon (Rourke) wants out of the endIess cycle of violence and bloodshed. UnfortunateIy, the price for his freedom is to perform one last murder for a ruthIess mobster (Bates). As the vicious worId he's trying to escape closes in on him, FaIlon's onIy hope for saIvation... may be the man he's been ordered to kill. Mike Hodges (Flash Gordon, Get Carter) nimbIy directs this adaptation of the Jack Higgins thriIIer with Sammi Davis (Four Rooms, TV’s Homefront), Christopher FuIford (Scoop, Eye See You), Leonard Termo (Ed Wood, Godzilla), AIison Doody (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A View to KilI, Major League ll) and CamiIIe Couduri (King RaIph, TV’s Sinchronicity) rounding out the cast. |