Synopsis
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
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Cast
- David MorrisseyMaurice Jobson
- Lisa HowardJudith Jobson
- Chris WalkerJim Prentice
- Shaun DooleyDick Alderman
- Jim CarterHarold Angus
- Warren ClarkeBill Molloy
- Sean BeanJohn Dawson
- Sean HarrisBob Craven
- Steven RobertsonBob Fraser
- Tony MooneyTommy Douglas
Recommandations
- 100
New York Daily News
These three films (adapted from David Peace's novels by different directors), each a singularly gripping work, together form a towering and emotionally complex achievement. - 100
Los Angeles Times
The powerfully disturbing Red Riding trilogy will haunt you waking and sleeping, night and day. If you survive the watching of it, that is, which is no easy thing. - 90
Salon
Of course the films and the books each have to stand on their own, but Grisoni's stripped-down narrative definitely offers advantages, throwing some of the story's archetypal themes into sharper relief. - 90
Slate
It's not hard to forgive this series its lack of innovation, because it manages, for long stretches at least, to be something few serial-killer dramas ever are: really, really good. - 90
The New Yorker
An exhausting, morbidly fascinating, and finally thrilling experience. - 83
The A.V. Club
Red Riding’s depiction of the avarice and corruption possible when regions become kingdoms unto themselves feels simultaneously cynical and true. - 60
Time Out
This is meat-and-potatoes genre work, certainly superior to a Hollywood product like "Edge of Darkness," but not by much. - 50
Village Voice
The fact that the films hang together at the brink of incoherence is a credit to the assembled acting talent. Rebecca Hall and Maxine Peake deserve note, oases in this nasty, masculine world.
