- Title: USA: 'THE DEVIL'S OWN' PREMIERES IN NEW YORK
- Date: 13th March 1997
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES x * FILM CLIPS NOT FOR LIBRARY USE * (MARCH 13, 1997 AND RECENT) (MUST COURTESY COLUMBIA TRISTAR PICTURES) FILM CLIP FROM "DEVIL'S OWN"
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- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
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- Story Text:Two of Hollywood's biggest stars have teamed up for Hollywood's latest action blockbuster, "The Devil's Own". Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt led the celebrities, including Pitt's fiance Gwenyth Paltrow, at the film's premiere in New York City last week (March 13). The bash marks the film's simultaneous release in 30 countries from next week (March 26). The worldwide debut is one of the first of its type. Traditionally, Hollywood releases take several months to reach foreign markets but with the might of Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt behind it, distributor Columbia Tristar is expecting big things from "The Devil's Own". In the film, Ford plays streetwise cop Tom O'Meara. O'Meara gives refuge to gunman Roy Devaney (played by Pitt) innocent to the legacy of violence he has welcomed under his roof. As Devaney, Pitt plays an IRA (Irish Republican Army) operative who goes to New York City to buy arms. Trouble flares when the deal goes wrong and Devaney goes on the run, triggering an international manhunt. O'Meara has meanwhile welcomed Devaney into his home. Unwittingly, he becomes drawn into the manhunt in which he strives to disarm the Irish soldier -- without killing him. Ford says Devaney becomes like a member of his own family, liked and trusted by himself and his children. He says O'Meara also sympathises with the fact that Devaney's father was killed in front of him when he was a child and he decides he must save him. The film is directed by Alan Pakula. Pakula says the story interested him because unlike most films of this genre, "The Devil's Own" is not simply good guy versus bad guy. "These two men standing for very different things become very close -- almost like father and son -- and in the end must go into mortal comabt because of their different concepts of justice," he said. The film also stars Margaret Colin as Ford's wife, Sheila O'Meara. Treat Williams plays Billy Burke, the arms dealer who sells Devaney the weapons.
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