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Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983

redriding74West Yorkshire, 1983; as attorney John Piggott (Mark Addy) discovers that a prisoner was framed for the disappearance of a young girl, Detective Superintendent Maurice Jobson (David Morrissey) suffers pangs of conscience. The final entry in this superior crime trilogy reconnects with the first film and peels back the last layers of the mystery; we learn the full extent of what the police have been protecting. At the same time, a rift among the conspirators is evident. Likely to scare you off from ever visiting the Yorkshire area, but in spite of how realistic it may seem one should never mistake this for a documentary. The story ends with a (faint) ray of hope, and once again the acting is great.

2009-Britain. Made for TV. 105 min. Color. Produced byĀ Wendy Brazington, Andrew Eaton, Anita Overland. Directed byĀ Anand Tucker. Teleplay: Tony Grisoni. Novel: David Peace. Cinematography: David Higgs. Cast: Mark Addy (John Piggott), David Morrissey (Maurice Jobson), Jim Carter (Harold Angus), Warren Clarke, Daniel Mays, Peter Mullan… Sean Bean, Andrew Garfield.

Trivia: Released theatrically in the U.S. The other two films in the series are Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 and Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980.

Last word: “I remember meeting Peter Mullan on the set of ‘1983’. A good man. A fine actor and director. He was sitting in a chair on the set of the police station basement, the belly. He was wearing a blanket round his shoulders, and his face was spotted with ratā€™s blood. It wasnā€™t Peter at all; it was Reverend Laws, and I couldnā€™t stay in his company longer than a minute. I was freaked. I had to get out of there. I had an even darker meeting in a Soho pub with Sean Bean, who plays John Dawson. But thatā€™s another story.” (Grisoni, Dread Central)

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