Hidden Agenda (1990) on Netflix
In Belfast, Paul Sullivan and Ingrid Jessner investigate abuses by the British government during the Troubles. Gunmen kill Sullivan and take his tape; Peter Kerrigan is assigned the killing.
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Plot summary
During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her partner, the activist Paul Sullivan, collect testimony about abuses blamed on the British government. At an Orange march on The Twelfth, a man hands Sullivan an audio tape and offers to talk; Sullivan arranges to meet the person who recorded it. Gunmen shoot him dead in the street and take the tape from his body. Peter Kerrigan, a British police investigator, is given the killing to solve, though the inquiry is not one his own government wants pressed. Jessner brings him what she knows of Sullivan's work, and the two try to work out what the recording was, and why somebody killed for it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hidden Agenda (1990)
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- Loach's film was originally set up at Columbia Pictures in 1987, when David Puttnam ran the studio. After Puttnam was ousted, Loach had to find new financial backing and eventually found it with John Daly, who ran Hemdale Film Corporation.
- Hidden Agenda won the Jury Prize at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. At the Festival press conference, the Northern Irish critic Alexander Walker publicly denounced the film as IRA propaganda.
