As the Beast Sleeps
2002
75 minutes
Overview
Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.
Top Cast
Stuart Graham
Kyle
Patrick O'Kane
Freddie
Laine Megaw
Sandra
Daniel McGrady
Joe
Conor Grimes
Dougie
Alan McKee
Mac
Lalor Roddy
Heck
Gerard Jordan
Soup
Michael Liebman
Bap
Packy Lee
Wee Rab
Frank McCusker
Bap
Moya O'Hara
Sadie
Sean Kearns
Norman
Dick Holland
Herbie
Colum Convey
Larry
David Hayman
Alec
Tom Magill
Al
Tom Collins
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