Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Thriller • 2009 • 1 hr 46 min
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Andrew Garfield, Warren Clarke, Sean Bean, David Morrissey, John Henshaw
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Dark and thrilling true crime story, worth watching
Probably the greatest television adaptation ever. Sean Bean is absolutely terrifying, as is the rest of the cast.
The start of an impressive trilogy that masterfully establishes the world and lays the groundwork for what's to unfold.
If you want to see Andrew Garfield getting constantly beat up for almost 2 hours then this is a movie for you. Rather boring overall.
I love Andrew Garfield but this movie was a little boring. We didn't finish it
An amazing entry in the trilogy. Still can't belive this trilogy was made for TV
A dark, gritty, crime film set against the backdrop of actual events, though the story is fiction. It's a hard watch, though.
I liked the cast, and the idea of the movie, but it was slow and really didn’t go anywhere until the final 10 minutes of the film
Good premise but boring and way too much in the end
Not enough about the murders and investigation. Too much about the detective. My least favorite of the series.
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Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
