Fresh
Serves as a companion piece to writer-producer Paul Greengrass' superb 2001 pic Bloody Sunday, but emerges as a startlingly powerful achievement in its own right.
Scott Foundas, Variety
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Omagh
Overview
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
Director and cast
- Pete Travis Director
- Gerard McSorley as Michael Gallagher
- Michele Forbes as Patsy Gallagher
- Michèle Forbes as Patsy Gallagher
- Brenda Fricker as Nuala O'Loan
- Stuart Graham as Victor Barker
- Peter Ballance as Mark Breslin
- Brendan Coyle as Detective Sergeant John White
- Ian McElhinney as Stanley McCombe
- xxx as Elizabeth Gibson
- Stanley Townsend as Sam Pollock
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
... unnervingly evokes both the panic and the confusion of a world suddenly ripped inside out.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Fresh
... a good picture that's at its best when dramatizing the very violence it condemns.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
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