Maguire underestimates the judge's protection, and an armed bodyguard shoots and kills him while Jude manages to escape. Without Fergus present, an angered Maguire decides with Jude to proceed with the mission. Holding Fergus at gunpoint with his own pistol, Dil demands that he tell her that he loves her and will never leave her he complies, and she unties him. Dil, drunk, appears not to understand however, in the morning, before Fergus awakens, Dil restrains him by tying his arms and legs to the bed with stockings, leaving Fergus unable to complete the assassination. Fergus stays with her, and admits his role in Jody's death. The night before the IRA mission, Dil gets drunk and Fergus escorts her to her apartment, where she asks him to never leave her again. She forces him to agree to help assassinate a British judge, and mentions that she knows about his affair, warning him that the IRA will kill Dil if he does not cooperate.įergus continues to woo Dil, cutting her hair short and dressing her in Jody's old cricket uniform as a disguise to shield her from possible retribution. Around the same time, Jude unexpectedly reappears and tells Fergus the IRA has tried and convicted him of treason in absentia. Despite initially being shocked by Dil's gender identity, he is still taken by her.
A few days later, Fergus leaves Dil a note in her mailbox apologising and the two reconcile. An initially repulsed Fergus rushes to the bathroom to vomit after hitting Dil in the face, and then leaves her apartment. Fergus soon begins falling in love with her and their relationship progresses, but when the two prepare to become intimate in her apartment, Dil reveals her transgender status while undressing. Fergus, consumed by guilt over Jody's death, follows the pair, rescuing Dil. Later, they talk in a bar, where a drunken customer torments Dil. Fergus escapes to London, taking a job as a day labourer under the alias "Jimmy".Ī few months later, Fergus encounters Dil, working as a stylist at a hair salon. The British army attacks the IRA unit and Fergus manages to escape, believing that his companions have perished in the attack. Just as Jody escapes onto a road, a British armoured personnel carrier accidentally runs over and kills him.
Fergus seemingly complies but when Jody attempts escape, Fergus pursues him without shooting him. When the deadline set by Jody's captors passes with their demands unmet, Fergus is ordered to take Jody into the woods to kill him.
Realising he will most likely die, Jody requests Fergus to promise to seek out his girlfriend Dil ( Jaye Davidson). Fergus-assigned to stand guard over Jody-begins bonding with him, and Jody tells Fergus the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog. The unit intends to hold Jody until an imprisoned IRA member is released, and if their demands are not met within three days, he will be executed. In 1999, the British Film Institute named it the 26th-greatest British film of all time.Īt a rural Northern Irish fairground, a Provisional IRA volunteer named Fergus ( Stephen Rea) and a unit of other IRA members, led by Peter Maguire ( Adrian Dunbar), kidnap a black British soldier named Jody ( Forest Whitaker) after a female member of their unit, Jude ( Miranda Richardson), lures Jody to a secluded area by promising sex. Fergus is forced to decide between what he wants and what his nature dictates he must do.Ī critical and commercial success, The Crying Game won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, alongside Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Rea, Best Supporting Actor for Davidson, and Best Film Editing. Fergus later develops an unexpected romantic relationship with Jody's lover, Dil (Davidson), whom Fergus promised Jody he would take care of. The film follows Fergus (Rea), a member of the IRA, who has a brief but meaningful encounter with a British soldier, Jody (Whitaker), who is being held prisoner by the group. The film explores themes of race, sex, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The Crying Game is a 1992 thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Stephen Woolley, and starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Ralph Brown, and Forest Whitaker.
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