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Running Time
96
min
MPAA rating
Unrated
Release Date
Dec 5, 2008
Hunger (2008)
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.
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'Hunger" brings us into its central narrative slowly, circling it like a bird afraid to land. This is the Bobby Sands story, true, but we don't even see Sands until well into the movie.
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