Divorcing Jack (film)

Divorcing Jack
Directed byDavid Caffrey
Written byColin Bateman
StarringDavid Thewlis
Jason Isaacs
Laura Fraser
Robert Lindsay
Richard Gant
Rachel Griffiths
Production
companies
BBC Films
Winchester Films
Distributed byMosaic Movies
Release date
  • 2 October 1998 (1998-10-02) (United Kingdom)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£0.5 million[1]

Divorcing Jack is a 1998 satirical black comedy. The plot is set around the Northern Irish reporter Dan Starkey who gets entangled in a web of political intrigue and Irish sectarian violence, at the same time as Northern Ireland is set to elect a new Prime Minister. Writer Colin Bateman adapted his own 1995 book as the screenplay.

  1. ^ "British biz at the box office". Variety. 14 December 1998. p. 72. Retrieved 21 July 2023 – via The Free Library.