Four Days in July

Four Days in July is a 1985 television film by Mike Leigh. It is set and filmed in Belfast, the film explores the Troubles by following the daily lives of two couples on either side of Northern Ireland's religious divide, both about to have their first children. The film's two couples are the stars Paula Hamilton and Charles Lawson as the Protestant couple, Lorraine and Billy, and Brid Brennan and Des McAleer as the Catholic couple. The film's action happens during July 10- 13 in1984; the two couples' children are both born on July 12, the date of a Protestant celebration in Northern Ireland known as the Twelfth. Despite the politically charged setting, the film is uniquely uneventful, at least on the surface; Paul Clements writes "It is hard to identify any full length work by Leigh in which less of consequence seems to happen." Broadcast once in January of 1985, it was Leigh's last film for the BBC. MORE [EDIT]

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Release Date: 1985

Duration: 1:36:00

Director: Mike Leigh

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