Open Fire (1994)

Directed by

Paul Greengrass

Genre

crime, drama, tv movie

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A TV drama about the police hunt for a man who escaped custody after shooting an officer. The manhunt leads to another man being mistakenly shot.

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What happens

Open Fire is single British television crime drama film, made for ITV, which first broadcast on 12 November 1994. The film was written and directed by Paul Greengrass, and concerns the police manhunt for David Martin, who escaped from custody following his arrest for shooting a police officer, leading up to the shooting in error of another man, Stephen Waldorf. The film starred Rupert Graves as Martin, as well as Samuel West as Waldorf, Douglas Hodge as investigating officer DC Peter Finch, and Kate Hardie as Sue Stephens. Open Fire was filmed in Belsize Park and in around Hampstead, London. The film has never been released commercially. The UK based TV Channel Talking Pictures TV has since shown Open Fire, firstly on 5 October 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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