''Moving Target'' is a 2000 Irish/American

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directed by Paul Ziller starring

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Plot

A breakaway extremist group of

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steals nuclear detonators hidden inside six glass bottles of Beamish. Meanwhile, an innocent tourist named Ray Brock (played by Don Wilson) arrives in

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, Co. Galway to visit Alice, a woman whom he has been conversing with online. In order to win favour with Alice, Ray goes to a local pub to purchase a six-pack of Beamish. He accidentally purchases the same six-pack that the nuclear detonators are hidden in, and becomes embroiled in a cat-and-mouse chase between the IRA extremists, US intelligence and the Garda Síochána.

Cast

as Ray Brock * Bill Murphy as Mickey * Eileen McCloskey as Alice Doyle *

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as Malloy * Nuala Kelly as Lt. Brady * Mick Nolan as Det. Stokes * Stephen Holland as John * Eamonn Draper as Mike *

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as Kate * Hillary Kavanagh as Shannon * Sean Colgan as Parnell * Luke Hayden as Sean

References

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