The Crying Game
The Crying Game is a 1992 crime thriller film, written and directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Stephen Woolley and Nik Powell, and starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Ralph Brown, and Forest Whitaker. The film explores themes of race, sex, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Plot
At a rural fairground in Northern Ireland, a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit kidnaps Jody, a Black British soldier. A female member of the IRA unit, Jude, had lured Jody to a secluded area by promising sex. The unit intends on holding Jody in exchange for the release of an imprisoned IRA member; if the prisoner is not released within three days, the unit intends to summarily execute Jody.