{{short description|1997 film directed by James Brolin}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox film | name = My Brother's War | image = My Brother's War.jpg | caption = Promotional poster | director = James Brolin | producer = | writer = Alex Simon | screenplay = | story = | based_on = | starring = {{Plainlist| * Jennie Garth * James Brolin * Patrick Foy * Salvator Xuereb * Josh Brolin }} | narrator = | music = {{Plainlist| *Gordon Goodwin *John R. Graham }} | cinematography = | editing = | studio = Concorde Anois | distributor = New Horizons | released = {{Film date|1997|09|17|United States}} | runtime = 94 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $1.1 million<ref name="bab">{{Cite news|title=BROLIN CHECKS IN: Former 'Hotel' star re-enters the limelight with TV success and a romance with Barbra Streisand|last=Hall|first=Steve|newspaper=Indianapolis Star|date=1997-12-18|page=E.1}}</ref> | gross = }} '''''My Brother's War''''' (also known as '''''Flashpoint''''') is a 1997 American film directed by and starring James Brolin.
It was filmed in Ireland for Concorde Anois.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Hollywood fest to screen Brolin film|newspaper=The Atlanta Constitution|location=Atlanta, Ga|date=1997-10-07|page=D.07}}</ref>
==Plot== In Northern Ireland, brothers Gerry and Liam are members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army. In the wake of the peace process, Gerry wants to follow ethical principles, while Liam knows no limits; this leads them to a divide and Liam forms a splinter group. A CIA agent and the support of Mary will force Gerry to stop his brother.
==Cast== *Jennie Garth as Mary Fagan Bailey *James Brolin as John Hall *Patrick Foy as Gerry Fallon *Salvator Xuereb as Liam Fallon *Gary Cooke as Brian Fagan *Tony Boston as Aidan *Seamus Fox as Bobby *Lesley Conroy as Frances O'Brien *Emma O'Neill as Sinead *Josh Brolin as Pete *Mike Regan as Michael Fallon *Conal O'Fatharta as 12-year-old Gerry *Michael McNally as 8-year-old Liam *Cristi Conaway as Kelly Hall (as Kristi Conaway) *Craig Warnock as Conal Byrne *John Slattery as Devlin *Bill Murphy as Paddy
==Production== The film was shot in Ireland.<ref name="bab"/>
Brolin was visited during filming by his then girlfriend Barbra Streisand.<ref name="bab"/> "I really wanted to support Jim, because I knew how difficult it was to direct a movie that you're in," Streisand said. "I had been with men who were not so supportive when I was doing a movie. So I really wanted to give him what I felt I didn't get. I would get up at 5 and give him breakfast and help him through that ordeal. It was just a very loving intimate experience to live in a house with a thatched roof."<ref>{{Cite news|title=STREISAND FINDS LOVE AS SOFT AS AN EASY CHAIR: A STUDY IN CONTRADICTION, THE ENTERTAINMENT LEGEND TALKS ABOUT THE HARMONY THAT SHE HAS FOUND IN HER LIFE WITH FIANCE JAMES BROLIN|first=Claudia|last=Dreifus|agency=''The New York Times''|newspaper=Orlando Sentinel|location=Orlando, Fla|date=1997-11-14|page=E1}}</ref>
==Reception== In his book ''The IRA on Film and Television: A History'', Mark Connelly cites the film as one of the films featuring the IRA that presents its acts as belonging to a "splinter" group at odds with the "official" IRA in an attempt to avoid political commentary, which Connelly argues "grant[s] a cloak of legitimacy to the IRA by blaming violence and extremism on lone malcontents."<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Connelly |first1=Mark |title=The IRA on Film and Television: A History |year=2012 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786489619 |page=215 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TzJtY1Mlu_4C&q=My+Brother%27s+War&pg=PA215}}</ref>
==Awards== The film was named Best Feature Film with a budget over $1 million at the 1997 Hollywood Film Festival.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=An hour on the phone with James Brolin |last=Dolan |first=Deirdre |magazine=Us Weekly |location=New York |issue=299 |date=2000-11-06 |pages=68-71}}</ref>
==See also== * ''Patriot Games''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=0133987|title=My Brother's War}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes|id=my_brothers_war|title=My Brother's War}}
Category:1997 films Category:1997 action thriller films Category:1990s political thriller films Category:American action thriller films Category:American political thriller films Category:Films about the Irish Republican Army Category:Films about the Troubles (Northern Ireland) Category:Films set in Northern Ireland Category:1997 English-language films Category:1997 American films Category:English-language action thriller films