Hidden Agenda movie storyline. When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man’s girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth… which they soon discover to be contained in an audio tape which the man had with him, exposing political manipulations at the highest levels of government. But such underlying agendas require careful considerations to avoid worse things than murder.
Hidden Agenda (1990), directed by Ken Loach, is a political thriller about British state terrorism during the Northern Irish Troubles that depicts the fictional assassination of an American civil rights lawyer.
Hidden Agenda won the Jury Prize at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best European Film at the Goya Awards. At the Festival press conference, the Northern Irish critic Alexander Walker publicly denounced the film as IRA propaganda.
The production was originally set up at Columbia Pictures in 1987, when David Puttnam ran the studio. After Puttnam was ousted, Loach had to find new financial backing, and eventually found it with John Daly who ran Hemdale Film Corporation.
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Directed by: Ken Loach
Starring: Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Bernard Archard. Mai Zetterling, Maureen Bell, John Benfield, Bernard Bloch, Victoria D’Angelo
Screenplay by: Jim Allen
Production Design by: Martin Johnson
Cinematography by: Clive Tickner
Film Editing by: Jonathan Morris
Costume Design by: Daphne Dare
Art Direction by: Nigel Phelps
Music by: Stewart Copeland
Distributed by: Hemdale Film Corporation
Release Date: November 21, 1990
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