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* ActorAllusion: Harrison Ford [[spoiler: as a cop facing a terrorist who delivers a touching quote just before dying. [[Film/BladeRunner Quite familiar, right ?]]]]
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:though being a terrorist, Frankie always shows himself very friendly towards Tom and his family, and never planned to hurt them. Until his final confrontation with Tom.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Billy Burke shows himself friendly and cordial at first towards Frankie, but reveals the worst of him when he holds Sean hostage in exchange of the payment for the missiles.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Billy Burke shows himself friendly and cordial at first towards Frankie, but reveals the worst of him when he holds Sean hostage in exchange of the payment for the missiles.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Frankie's death is quite sad, actually. Enough to make Tom shed some tears.]]
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:though being a terrorist, Frankie always shows himself very friendly towards Tom and his family, and never planned to hurt them.]]
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:though being a terrorist, Frankie always shows himself very friendly towards Tom and his family, and never planned to hurt them.]]
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* CradlingYourKill: [[spoiler:not cradling, but Tom hold Frankie's arm in the latter's last moments.]]
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* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler: Billy Burke, comparing to Frankie.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Billy Burke shows himself friendly and cordial at first towards Frankie, but reveals the worst of him when he holds Sean hostage in exchange of the payment for the missiles.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Billy Burke shows himself friendly and cordial at first towards Frankie, but reveals the worst of him when he holds Sean hostage in exchange of the payment for the missiles.]]
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* ManlyTears: [[spoiler:Tom shed some at Frankie's death.]]
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* DirtyCop: Downplayed. A plot point is that Tom never took a bribe in his entire career. When his partner shoots a fleeing suspect that hasn't got a gun and plants it, Tom is furious and ends up wanting to retire from the force, when his partner wants to cover it up.
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* DirtyCop: Downplayed. A plot point is that ByTheBookCop: Tom never took a bribe in his entire career.career, and prior the events of the movie, has fired his gun only four times in his 23 year of service. When his partner shoots a fleeing suspect that hasn't got a gun and plants it, Tom is furious and ends up wanting to retire from the force, when his partner wants to cover it up.
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''The Devil's Own'' is a 1997 action thriller film starring Creator/HarrisonFord and Creator/BradPitt, and was directed by Alan J. Pakula, Creator/AlanJPakula, which would turn out to be the last film he made before his death a year after its release.
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* PrecociousCrush: Annie O'Meara, the O'Mearas youngest daughter, has a crush on Frankie, who takes it stride even [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments when she asks if she would marry him]].
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* PrecociousCrush: Annie O'Meara, the O'Mearas youngest daughter, has a crush on Frankie, who takes it stride even [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments when she asks if she would marry him]].him.
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* TemptingFate: Tom tells Frankie that despite carrying a gun for over twenty years, he's only fired it four times in the field and he's never shot anyone. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Frankie then points out that when you pick up a gun, sooner or later someone's gonna get a bullet]].
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* TemptingFate: Tom tells Frankie that despite carrying a gun for over twenty years, he's only fired it four times in the field and he's never shot anyone. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Frankie then points out that when you pick up a gun, sooner or later someone's gonna get a bullet]].bullet.
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Frankie [=McGuire=], an IRA assassin, escapes [=McGuire=] (Pitt), a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, comes to New York the United States in order to buy weapons, where he stays obtain anti-aircraft missiles to be used to shoot down British helicopters in Northern Ireland. The plan, however, is complicated by Tom O'Meara (Ford), an Irish-American policeman, whom the house of police officer Tom O'Meara, who is unaware of Frankie's true identity. IRA member has come to regard as family. Their surprising friendship, friendship and Tom's growing suspicions, force Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
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* TheDreaded: Frankie has already become one by the start of the film, having been called "The Angel", after the ColdOpen.
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* CopKiller: Although he doesn't want to, Frankie coldly kills [[spoiler:Diaz]] to escape police custody.
* DirtyCop: Downplayed. A plot point is that Tom never took a bribe in his entire career. When his partner shoots a fleeing suspect that hasn't got a gun and plants it, Tom is furious and ends up wanting to retire from the force, when his partner wants to cover it up.
* TheDreaded: Frankie has already become one by the start of the film, having been called "TheAngel", Angel" by the authorities, after the ColdOpen.
* DirtyCop: Downplayed. A plot point is that Tom never took a bribe in his entire career. When his partner shoots a fleeing suspect that hasn't got a gun and plants it, Tom is furious and ends up wanting to retire from the force, when his partner wants to cover it up.
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* InstantDeathBullet: Averted. [[spoiler: Frankie]] remains on his feet for almost a minute after being shot, and stays alive and fully alert for another two minutes after he collapses before finally succumbing to his injury. Likewise with [[spoiler: Billy Burke]] who is shot, still alive until he takes a shotgun blast to the face, but played straight with [[spoiler: Edwin Diaz, Tom's partner]].
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* InstantDeathBullet: Averted. [[spoiler: Frankie]] remains on his feet for almost a minute after being shot, and stays alive and fully alert for another two minutes after he collapses before finally succumbing to his injury. Likewise with [[spoiler: Billy Burke]] who is shot, still alive until he takes a shotgun blast to the face, but played straight with [[spoiler: Edwin "Eddie" Diaz, Tom's partner]].
* PapaWolf: It wouldn't be a Harrison Ford movie without him showing him as one. Only it was with his wife being attacked and not his family, but he becomes ''pissed off'' once it becomes clear who Frankie is to him.
* PrecociousCrush: Annie O'Meara, the O'Mearas youngest daughter, has a crush on Frankie, who takes it stride even [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments when she asks if she would marry him]].
* SpottingTheThread: Tom starts figuring out that the man known as Rory to him and his family is not whom he appears to be. [[spoiler:After some thugs break into his house to look for the money that Frankie has for the Stingers, both Frankie and Tom fight them off and Tom goes down to the basement, Rory's room, and sees it trashed and begins to look around the room, before finding the money stashed away.]]
* PrecociousCrush: Annie O'Meara, the O'Mearas youngest daughter, has a crush on Frankie, who takes it stride even [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments when she asks if she would marry him]].
* SpottingTheThread: Tom starts figuring out that the man known as Rory to him and his family is not whom he appears to be. [[spoiler:After some thugs break into his house to look for the money that Frankie has for the Stingers, both Frankie and Tom fight them off and Tom goes down to the basement, Rory's room, and sees it trashed and begins to look around the room, before finding the money stashed away.]]
* TokenRomance: Between Frankie and Megan. It's a downplayed example, but still qualifies.
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* TokenRomance: Between Frankie and Megan. It's a downplayed example, but still qualifies.
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* InstantDeathBullet: Averted. [[spoiler: Frankie]] remains on his feet for almost a minute after being shot, and stays alive and fully alert for another two minutes after he collapses before finally succumbing to his injury. Likewise with [[spoiler: Billy Burke]] who is shot, still alive until he takes a shotgun blast to the face, but played straight with [[spoiler: Edwin Diaz, Tom's partner]].
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* InstantDeathBullet: Averted. [[spoiler: Frankie]] remains on his feet for almost a minute after being shot, and stays alive and fully alert for another two minutes after he collapses before finally succumbing to his injury. Likewise with [[spoiler: Billy Burke]] who is shot, still alive until he takes a shotgun blast to the face, but played straight with [[spoiler: Edwin Diaz, Tom's partner]].
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* TheDreaded: Frankie has already become one by the start of the film, having been called "The Angel", after the ColdOpen.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Frankie gets along very well with all three of Tom's daughters.
* InstantDeathBullet: Averted. [[spoiler: Frankie]] remains on his feet for almost a minute after being shot, and stays alive and fully alert for another two minutes after he collapses before finally succumbing to his injury.
** Also averted with [[spoiler: Billy Burke]], but played straight with [[spoiler: Tom's partner]].
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* FriendToAllChildren: Frankie gets along very well with some teenagers playing soccer at the start of the movie and all three of Tom's daughters.
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* InstantDeathBullet: Averted. [[spoiler: Frankie]] remains on his feet for almost a minute after being shot, and stays alive and fully alert for another two minutes after he collapses before finally succumbing to his injury. \n** Also averted Likewise with [[spoiler: Billy Burke]], Burke]] who is shot, still alive until he takes a shotgun blast to the face, but played straight with [[spoiler: Edwin Diaz, Tom's partner]].
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* UsefulNotes/TheTroubles: A portion of the movie is set in Northern Ireland and the filmmakers ShownTheirWork. Frankie is an IRA member sent to the United States to acquire some surface-to-air missiles from an arms dealer, while staying as the guest of Tom O'Meara, a New York City cop. It especially shows the IRA's support among many Irish-Americans, though doesn't portray this as a good thing and that WarIsHell on both sides.
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* VillainProtagonist: Frankie is the main central character and is an infamous IRA member in UsefulNotes/TheTroubles.
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* BookEnds: The film begins and ends with a scene of two men on a boat, followed by someone getting shot and killed.
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* TemptingFate: Tom tells Frankie that despite carrying a gun for over twenty years, he's only fired it four times in the field and he's never shot anyone. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Frankie then points out that when you pick up a gun, sooner or later someone's gonna get a bullet]].
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* InstantDeathBullet: Averted. [[spoiler: Frankie]] remains on his feet for almost a minute after being shot, and stays alive and fully alert for another two minutes after he collapses before finally succumbing to his injury.
** Also averted with [[spoiler: Billy Burke]], but played straight with [[spoiler: Tom's partner]].
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* ArcWords: "It's not an American story - it's an Irish one."
* FreudianExcuse: Frankie's father was gunned down in front of him when he was eight years old.
* FriendToAllChildren: Frankie gets along very well with all three of Tom's daughters.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: BradPitt's Pitt is unable to maintain an Irish accent keeps disappearing from time for more than a few words at a time. Even when he does manage to time.
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* FakeIrish: Brad Pitt as IRA terrorist Frankie [=McGuire=].
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* OldShame: Brad Pitt reveals his dislike for the film, calling it as the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking that he's ever seen. He even tried to walk out on the project when the film's script was incoherent.
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'''''The Devil's Own''''' is a 1997 action thriller film starring HarrisonFord and BradPitt, and was directed by Alan J. Pakula, which would turn out to be the last film he made before his death a year after its release.
Frankie [=McGuire=], an IRA assassin, escapes to New York in order to buy weapons, where he stays in the house of police officer Tom O'Meara, who knows nothing about Frankie's identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, force Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
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*FakeIrish: Brad Pitt as IRA terrorist Frankie McGuire.
*OldShame: Brad Pitt reveals his dislike for the film, calling it as the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking that he's ever seen. He even tried to walk out on the project when the film's script was incoherent.
*OohMeAccentsSlipping: Brad Pitt's Irish accent keeps disappearing from time to time.
Frankie [=McGuire=], an IRA assassin, escapes to New York in order to buy weapons, where he stays in the house of police officer Tom O'Meara, who knows nothing about Frankie's identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, force Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
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*FakeIrish: Brad Pitt as IRA terrorist Frankie McGuire.
*OldShame: Brad Pitt reveals his dislike for the film, calling it as the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking that he's ever seen. He even tried to walk out on the project when the film's script was incoherent.
*OohMeAccentsSlipping: Brad Pitt's Irish accent keeps disappearing from time to time.