Movie
1996
Michael Collins is a 1996 biographical film about Michael Collins, a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence against the United Kingdom. It is written and directed by Neil Jordan and stars Liam Neeson in the title role, along with Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, and Julia Roberts. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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In 1991 Jonathan Demme brought the wrath of American gay ommunity on himself by having a sexually ambiguous character for a villain in *The Silence of the Lambs*. For that crime he had to make amends with *Philadelphia* two years later. It could be argued that similar thing happened to Irish director Neil Jordan after *The Crying Game*, 1992 movie that had very negative portrayal of IRA. Regardless of what his motiv…More
