question: Liam Neeson was in the leading role in which 1989 action thriller directed by John Irvin?
answer: Next of Kin
context: Title: Taken (film)
  Passage: Taken is a 2008 English-language French action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, and starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Holly Valance, Katie Cassidy, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Gérard Watkins, and Famke Janssen.
  Title: The Commuter (film)
  Passage: The Commuter is an upcoming action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, and written by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi.  The film stars Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Banks, and Patrick Wilson.  The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on January 12, 2018, by Lionsgate, and in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2018, by StudioCanal.
  Title: Run All Night (film)
  Passage: Run All Night is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by Brad Ingelsby.  The film stars Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Common and Ed Harris, and was released on March 13, 2015.
  Title: Liam Neeson
  Passage: Liam John Neeson OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland.  In 1976, he joined the Lyric Players' Theatre in Belfast for two years.  He then acted in the Arthurian film, "Excalibur" (1981).  Between 1982 and 1987, Neeson starred in five films, most notably alongside Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in "The Bounty" (1984), and Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons in "The Mission" (1986).  He landed a leading role alongside Patrick Swayze in "Next of Kin" (1989).
  Title: Shivaay
  Passage: Shivaay is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed and produced by Ajay Devgn under his banner Ajay Devgn FFilms.  The story and screenplay are written by Sandeep Shrivastava and the film features Ajay Devgn in the lead titular role along with debutante actresses Sayyeshaa Saigal, Abigail Eames and Erika Kaar in lead roles.  The basic plot of the film is the same as that of the 2008 Hollywood film Taken starring Liam Neeson.  Mithoon has composed the film's score and soundtrack.  British band The Vamps and composer Jasleen Royal are also a part of the music.  The film revolves around a skilled mountaineer who turns into a destroyer when his daughter gets kidnapped by flesh traders and he is left helpless.
  Title: Next of Kin (1989 film)
  Passage: Next of Kin is a 1989 American action thriller film directed by John Irvin and starring Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson, with Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Ben Stiller in one of his earliest roles.  The screenplay was based on a story of the same title, both written by Michael Jenning.
  Title: Taken 3
  Passage: Taken 3 (sometimes stylized as TAK3N) is a 2015 English-language French action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.  It is the third and final installment in the "Taken" trilogy.  The film stars Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen.  The film is set three years after the second film.
  Title: Liam Neeson filmography
  Passage: Liam Neeson is an Irish actor and voice actor, who rose to prominence with his acclaimed starring role in Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar winner "Schindler's List".  He has since starred in a number of other successful films, including "", "Taken", "Michael Collins", "Les Misérables", "Batman Begins", "Kinsey", "Clash of the Titans", and "The Chronicles of Narnia" series.  He has been nominated for a number of awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor, a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. " Empire" magazine ranked Neeson among both the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" and "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time."
  Title: Non-Stop (film)
  Passage: Non-Stop is a 2014 American mystery action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Lupita Nyong'o, and Scoot McNairy.  An international co-production among France, the United States, and the United Kingdom, it was the first film from Silver Pictures since "Weird Science", and its first film to be distributed by Universal Pictures since the end of Universal's deal with Warner Bros..  The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics and was a box office success.
  Title: Taken 2
  Passage: Taken 2 is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton which stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Šerbedžija, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, D.B. Sweeney and Luke Grimes.
citations: Next of Kin (1989 film) Liam Neeson