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Hunger (2008)

NR May 15, 2008 Drama, History 1h 36m
User Score
72%
1,142 votes
Internet Movie Database
75%
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
8200%

An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest.

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.

Enda Walsh
Writer
Steve McQueen
Writer

Top Billed Cast

Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender

Bobby Sands
Stuart Graham
Stuart Graham

Ray Lohan
Liam Cunningham
Liam Cunningham

Priest
Helena Bereen
Helena Bereen

Raymond's Mother
Laine Megaw
Laine Megaw

Raymond's Wife
Brian Milligan
Brian Milligan

Davey Gillen
Liam McMahon
Liam McMahon

Gerry Campbell
Karen Hassan
Karen Hassan

Gerry's Girlfriend
Frank McCusker
Frank McCusker

The Governor

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender on Hunger | Film4 Interview Archive
Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender on Hunger | Film4 Interview Archive
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Reviews

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on May 31, 2025

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 took power 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 and his fellow inmates living in what can only be described as squalid (though much of that was self-afflicted) conditions that would not have looked out of place in some South American dictatorship. His protests were falling on deaf and disinterested ears and in the end, he concluded that the ultimate sacrifice was his only option. Not that that, in itself, would solve the problems - but in the h...

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