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Forced Alliance

8,7 /10 (3 Votes)
1989 EN 92 min

Overview

Four young friends, en route to the coast for a weekend of surfing and fun are forced to seek help from a strange recluse when their car breaks down. Jack Rattigan is a strange man living in an even stranger house, a decaying relic of a bygone age. Is Rattigan insane? Or are his words and acts and expression of a mind tortured by mortal anguish? What is Rattigans secret? And what is the source of his power to mesmerise?

Release date

19/11/1989

Votes

3

Popularity

0.3

Their plea for help turned into a night they would never forget.

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

92 min

Budget

$117

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Paul de Bruin

2013-11-19

⭐ 6

I want to thank **Paul S. Rowlston** for helping me track this film down and for supplying the artwork scan from his own personal VHS tape! This film is pretty rare and I haven’t actually seen it but Paul was the Production manager / Associate Producer on this one and assures me that: > while it was made cheap and fast, this was actually a pretty good film, a strong script with an amazing and affecting performance by Danny Keogh. > It was an honest attempt at a serious film. Paul also provided an interesting backstory to this film: >It was written by **Gregg Latter** at the request …

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