The Crying Game

Genre: Drama

Worldwide gross$62.5M

An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus (Stephen Rea), an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody (Forest Whitaker), a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by Jude (Miranda Richardson), another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil (Jaye Davidson). Fergus adopts the name "Jimmy" and gets a job as a day laborer. He also starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' IRA background. But there is something about Dil that Fergus doesn't know, either.

🏆 Won 1 Oscar. 22 wins & 46 nominations total

Genres

Crime, Drama, Romance

Director

Neil Jordan

Cast

Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker

Released

19 February 1993

Runtime

1h 52m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7.2 / 10

Votes

62,870

Metascore

90

Rotten Tomatoes

95%

Box office

$62,548,947

Edition

Base