Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) on Netflix
In 1975 Northern Ireland, UVF member Alistair Little kills Jimmy Griffin while Griffin's younger brother Joe watches. Thirty-three years later, television arranges a meeting between them.
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Plot summary
In February, 1975, in Northern Ireland, seventeen year-old UVF member Alistair Little kills the catholic Jimmy Griffin in his house in Lurgan in front of his younger brother Joe Griffin. Alistair is arrested and imprisoned for twelve years while Joe is blamed by his mother for not saving his brother. Thirty-three years later, a TV promotes the meeting of Alistair and Joe in a house in River Finn, expecting the truth and the reconciliation of the murderer and the victim who actually seeks five minutes of heaven.
Cast
- Mathew McElhinneyas Stuart: 1975
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- James Nesbitt met the real Joe Griffin before filming, but Liam Neeson deliberately put off meeting Alistair Little until the shoot was over, saying he did not want the physical differences between them cluttering up his head.
- Writer Guy Hibbert had the film commissioned by BBC Four precisely so television executives would leave his script alone, but BBC Four dropped it when it could not raise a bigger budget, and Big Fish Films had to find backers including Northern Ireland Screen.
- It was the first film in which Northern Ireland's two best-known actors, Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt, appeared together.
