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THE DEVIL’S OWN is a humane thriller based on the idea that a law-abiding American-Catholic policeman offers room and board to a young Irish immigrant who is actually a fugitive I.R.A. revolutionary. Both actors (Harrison Ford as the cop, Brad Pitt as the stranger) are loaded with charisma.
Pitt’s character has killed 24 men. As a child his father was shot down before his eyes. He’s in America buying weapons from a nasty arms dealer (played by Treat Williams). When British agents brutally break into Ford’s home he has a wife (impressive Margaret Colin) and three daughters looking for Brad and his money, the American must decide what he believes.
The film’s ultraviolent episodes are overshadowed by the humanity and bonding. Director Alan Pakula (The Pelican Brief) is good at dark tales of men trapped in an aura of enclosing evil. Although Irish miseries are the subject, nothing is discussed in much depth. Finally, there is sympathy for both war and peace factions. “Don’t look for a happy ending,” says Pitt’s I.R.A. warrior. “It’s not an American story, it’s an Irish one.”
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