Story Line
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.
“An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest.”
Top Cast
Michael Fassbender
Bobby Sands
Stuart Graham
Ray Lohan
Liam Cunningham
Priest
Helena Bereen
Raymond's Mother
Laine Megaw
Raymond's Wife
Brian Milligan
Davey Gillen
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Rating
7.2/ 10
Release Date
2008-05-15
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
DramaHistory
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User Reviews (2)
CinemaSerf
7/10
•5/31/2025Well 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 Pr...
badelf
8/10
•11/22/2025Ouch.
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.