Nothing Personal

Northern Ireland's civil unrest is the backdrop for this tense drama. In Belfast in 1975, a bomb blast rips open a pub in a Protestant neighborhood, killing the patrons inside. Following this attack, representatives from the Irish Republican Army and local Loyalist forces call a mutual truce, which ...more

Despite its deliberately ironic title, Nothing Personal doesn't concentrate on the political or historical reasons for the Irish Troubles. Instead, it's about the personal cost of this conflict. The film opens with a quote from W.B. Yeats, a Protestant Irishman with Catholic sympathies: "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned/The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity." This quote is famous enough that some may ...more