Hunger
DramaHistory
7.244/10
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|96 min
Release Date: 2008-05-15
Overview - The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
Production Companies
Film4 ProductionsNorthern Ireland ScreenBroadcasting Commission of IrelandWales Creative IP FundBlast! Films
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
Well nobody could ever accuse Michael Fassbender is giving half measures here in this graphic and brutal biopic of Irish Republican prisoner Bobby Sands. Shortly after Margaret Thatcher was elected in Britain, he was incarcerated in Belfast’s Maze Prison where his stance against not just the UK but the predominately Unionist views of the population of Northern Ireland at the time were seeing him a...
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badelf
8/10
Ouch. Margaret Thatcher was a huge bitch. If people can watch this movie and not realize that oversized, corrupt governments are pure evil, then something is deeply wrong. Fassbinder is absolutely phenomenal in this.
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