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.
Won 1 BAFTA Film Award49 wins & 39 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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Hunger -- the disturbing, provocative, brilliant feature debut from British director Steve McQueen -- does for modern film what Caravaggio did to Renaissance painting.
– Liam Lacey,
Globe and Mail,
10 Apr 2009
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Hunger is not about the rights and wrongs of the British in Northern Ireland, but about inhumane prison conditions, the steeled determination of IRA members like Bobby Sands, and a rock and a hard place.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
16 Apr 2009
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Hunger is daunting and powerful work.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
16 Apr 2009
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It's a strength of this carefully composed, almost obsessively controlled picture that it has no interest in the conventional biographical focus on a subject.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr 2009
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Midway through the movie there's an epic 24-minute scene...in the claustrophobic cell block the protesters have already internalized their cause so deeply that the world of words seems distant and inconsequential.