🎬 Thriller, Drama

The Price

"Brutal terror and financial intrigue clash in this stylish, edgy thriller from Channel 4"

1985 6h Dir. Peter Smith

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Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.

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Year
1985
Runtime
6h
Genre
Thriller, Drama
Director
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Thriller 🎭 Drama 🎬 Peter Smith 👤 Peter Barkworth 👤 Harriet Walter 👤 Aingeal Grehan
ransom kidnapping ira (irish republican army)

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The Price has a runtime of 6h (6 hours).
The Price was directed by Peter Smith and released in 1985.
The Price is a Thriller, Drama film (1985).
The cast of The Price includes Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Aingeal Grehan, Simon Jones, Derek Thompson.

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