Jack O’Connell

Rising star Jack O’Connell looks ridiculously young and lost in the grim, battle-scarred world.

Lost at sea on a rubber raft. No food. You try to eat a seagull. Doesn’t go down well (it comes right back up), so you eat small sharks raw. Constant vigilance is necessary; bigger sharks leap into the raft to get at you. Storms. Only rainwater to drink. Try that for 47 days. Then get captured by hostile forces and beaten black and blue, for a long, long, time.

When two movie brothers go off to war, it is a lead-pipe cinch that one of them is not coming back. The questions will be which one and under what circumstances. The answers will be revealed in a series of flashbacks throughout Pat O'Connor’s World War I drama, “Private Peaceful.”