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Hunger (2008)

NR 05/15/2008 Drama, History 1h 36m
72%
User
Score
7.5/10
90%
82/100

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

Director

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

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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

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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