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In striving for balance, Thaddeus O'Sullivan's pre-Irish peace process drama fails to deliver its intended statement and ends up merely reinforcing the clichés and stereotypes that exist on either side of the divide. Adapted by Daniel Mornin from his own novel, All Our Fault, the story is over-reliant on cross-denominational coincidence to truly convince, while its murderous conclusion is cheaply manipulative. John Lynch is too familiar as the father who finds himself on the front line, while Ian Hart is wildly over-the-top as a trigger-happy bigot. Yet the solid work of Michael Gambon and James Frain, and O'Sullivan's good intentions, make it worth watching.

A well-made drama of the Irish troubles, showing faults on both sides, but one that is likely to leave a viewer little wiser, other than with the conclusion that violence causes more problems than it solves.