Griffin very shakily lights up a cigarette as Little pulls himself from the wall he was sitting against and limps down the road. He tells Griffin to "get rid of me", to tell his family that he has killed Little and to live his life for them, not for vengeance. He explains why he killed Griffin's brother. Little tells Griffin that he is leaving for Belfast. In the struggle, they fall through a second story window. At the meeting, Griffin, full of hate and wanting vengeance, attacks Little from behind and attempts to stab him. As Griffin reaches for the knife before the meeting, his wife tries to stop him, but he pushes her to the floor. Griffin asks Little to meet him at Griffin's childhood home, now abandoned and boarded up, where Little murdered his brother. Little offers to meet Griffin, and Griffin accepts. When the producers try to calm him, he leaves, and the two men do not meet. However, just before he is to go on camera, he becomes extremely agitated and demands that the cameras be removed. He is carrying a knife and intends to murder his brother's killer during the meeting. Little has served his sentence and peace has been agreed to in Northern Ireland, but Joe Griffin is not coming on the programme for a handshake. In 2008-thirty-three years after the murder and nineteen years after Little is released from prison-Little and Joe Griffin have been set up to meet on camera by a reconciliation project. Little is arrested and sentenced to prison for 12 years. When they kill Griffin, his 8-year old little brother, Joe watches in horror. He and his gang are given the go-ahead to kill a young Catholic man, James Griffin, as a reprisal and a warning to others. Alistair Little, 17, is the leader of a UVF cell, eager to let blood. In Lurgan, Northern Ireland, during 1975 and the Northern Irish Troubles, the Irish Republican Army are targeting loyalists in turn, the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force are exacting revenge on Catholics they claim are militant republicans. The first part reconstructs the historical killing of 19-year-old Jim Griffin by 17-year-old Alistair Little in 1975, and the second part depicts a fictional meeting between Little and Griffin's brother Joe 33 years later. As a television film it was broadcast on BBC Two on 5 April 2009, and also had an international feature film release. The film was premiered on 19 January 2009 at the 25th Sundance Film Festival where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award for Hirschbiegel, and the World Cinema Screenwriting Award for Hibbert. To obtain a license for ticketed screenings or performances, distribution, selling or distributing of audio or videotaped events or performances using the purchased material in physical or digital form, or to make any other license request that is not granted by the purchase of the product, please click here to submit your request.Five Minutes of Heaven is a 2009 Irish film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a script by Guy Hibbert. Video purchase grants the right to make minor edits to the work in order to accommodate time constraints as long as the edit does not change the original intent or theme of the work. If you are wanting to stream a particular video in your service, we request you contact us at least 2 weeks before the service to clear any potential copyright issues. If you want to use one of our videos or scripts to a ticketed event or if you are being paid for the performance of our script, please submit a licensing request.Īny physical (creation of DVDs, hard drives, thumb drives, etc.) or digital distribution (streaming, posting on YouTube, etc.) of the content is strictly prohibited. When you buy a script or video from us you can show it at any event you like, as long as you're not charging admission to your event.
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