The victim was an atheist, the P.I. is a born-again Christian, the main suspect is a Muslim student, and the defense attorney is a Jew.
Based on the novel by Larry Beinhart and a screenplay George Ratliff co-wrote with Douglas Stone, Salvation Boulevard is a mystery about a private investigator hired to find the killer of a college professor that becomes an exploration of religious faith.
“The book uses a mystery to examine the religious process, the mega-churches and how they manipulate minds,” said Mandalay prexy Cathy Schulman. “It is tricky terrain, but George is a filmmaker with a distinguishable voice.
The problem of having archeologists among one’s fans is that some nice old things always end up being unearthed.
In this 1984 interview, Ciarán chats about his work with Citizens’ Theatre in Glasgow, and his more recent parts in Bent at the Projects and in the ITC’s The Seagull.
The sadness, really, is that he wanted to be a soccer player. Manchester United’s loss has been theatre and cinema’s gain but we are not sorry about it! As for training in RADA: “Heady days, too many late nights, too much fun.” But a good time to arrive.
Miramax Films has unveiled the trailer for director John Madden’s war drama The Debt which comes to theaters December 29th. In 1965, three young Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in the Ukraine and one of the former agents must go back undercover to seek out the truth. It is the sixth time that Helen Mirren stars along with Ciarán in a movie.
