In its opening week in America last month Neil Jordan's film "Michael Collins" had a remarkable average gross of $45,500 per screen. Variety, America's show-business oracle, rates it a contender for the Oscars. This would be good going for any political film, a genre often thought to be poison at the box-office. It seems spectacular for a long screen biography of an Irish Republican leader shot dead by his own side 74 years ago.
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