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MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Steve McQueen
Genre: Political Drama, Prison Film, Drama
Release Date: March 20, 2009 (USA
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Summary:
The final months of Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army activist who protested his treatment at the hands of British prison guards with a hunger strike, are chronicled in this historical drama, the first feature film from artist-turned-filmmaker Steve McQueen. Davey Gillen (Brian Milligan) is an IRA volunteer who is sentenced to Belfast's infamo... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Brian Milligan - (Davey Gillen)
Liam McMahon - (Gerry Campbell)
Michael Fassbender - (Bobby Sands)
Liam Cunningham - (Father Dominic Moran)
Stuart Graham - (Raymond Lohan)
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Review:
One doubts that any feature film could more maturely, passionately, or elegantly evoke the madness and confusion at the heart of the early-'80s IRA conflict than Irish director Steve McQueen's harrowing docudrama Hunger. The film unfurls in 1981, aro ... Continue >>

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