Hunger (2008)

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Rating: NONE

Release Date: Dec 5, 2008

Running Time: 96 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Liam McMahon, Laine Megaw, Lalor Roddy, Brian Milligan, Frank McCusker

director: Steve McQueen

Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, 1981. The infamous H-Blocks is where Irish republican prisoners are on the Blanket and No-Wash protest. It is a living hell for both prisoner and prison officer as the H-Block leader, Bobby Sands, pursues various tactics to help his fellow republicans re-establish their political status. In order to create real change, Bobby leads a Hunger Strike to protest for special category status for republican prisoners.

PETER TRAVERS - March 19, 2009

Once upon a better time, there were audiences who looked for hardscrabble movies that pushed them out of their comfort zones into uncharted territory. Hunger is such a movie. It's an artistic triumph that asks us to enter the H blocks of Northern Ireland's Maze prison, circa 1981, and watch IRA prisoner Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) lead a hunger strike that will leave him skeletal and dead at the age of 27.

The facts of Sands' final weeks are well known, as is his intent: to have IRA…