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Conspiracy of Silence

Country: UK, Language: English, 90 mins

  • Director: John Deery
  • Writer: John Deery
  • Producer: Amit Barooah; Robert Bevan

CGiii Comment

AIDS in the catholic church - it makes a change from child abuse.

It is another damning film of this foul institution - condemning the innocent and protecting the guilty - their hypocrisy is thrown in your face...without mercy.

However, it feels completely unfinished - the main interest really does come at the end, everything before is almost superficial.

Not as powerful as it should have been - and, it leaves you with a sense of: COP OUT.

Certainly worth watching as yet another nail is driven into the coffin of institutionalised Catholicism - we welcome all drivers of nails.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church following two controversial incidents, the suicide of Frank Sweeney, a parish priest and the expulsion of Daniel McLaughlin, a young trainee priest from a nearby seminary, on the grounds that he was open to the sexual advances of a male colleague. A local journalist, David Foley, is convinced that Sweeney's death and Daniel's expulsion are linked. Desperate to clear his good name and be re-instated, Daniel agrees to talk to Foley. As the story gathers momentum, the Church closes ranks.

Cast & Characters

Jonathan Forbes as Daniel McLaughlin;
Hugh Bonneville as Fr. Jack Dowling;
Brenda Fricker as Annie McLaughlin;
Sean McGinley as Rector Cathal;
Hugh Quarshie as Fr. Joseph Ennis;
Jason Barry as David Foley;
Paudge Behan as Niall;
Sean Boru as Father Murphy;
Olivia Caffrey as Liz Foley;
Tommy Carey as Sean;
Patrick Casey as Father Sweeney;
Carmel Cryan as Mrs. McDermott;
Catherine Cusack as Mary McLaughlin;
Patrick Doyle as Senior Umpire #1;
Patrick Duggan as Micky