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Stuart Graham

1967, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

2 April 1977, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany

Frank McCusker

1967, Newtontownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK

Lalor Roddy

1954, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Helen Madden

Des McAleer

25 May 1952, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

2 June 1961, Dublin, Ireland

Billy Clarke

1958, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Ciaran Flynn

B.J. Hogg

30 April 1955, Lisburn County, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

Larry Cowan

Tom Dart

14 April 1955, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Margaret Thatcher

13 October 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Steve McQueen

9 October 1969, London, England, UK

Steve McQueen

9 October 1969, London, England, UK

Enda Walsh

1967, Dublin, Ireland

Raymond Lohan

Played by: Stuart Graham

Raymond's Wife

Played by: Laine Megaw

Davey Gillen

Played by: Brian Milligan

Gerry Campbell

Played by: Liam McMahon

Gerry's Girlfriend

Played by: Karen Hassan

Bobby Sands

Played by: Michael Fassbender

The Governor

Played by: Frank McCusker

William

Played by: Lalor Roddy

Mrs. Sands

Played by: Helen Madden

Mrs. Sands

Played by: Des McAleer

Bearded Man

Played by: Geoff Gatt

Priest

Played by: Rory Mullen

Riot Prison Offficer Stephen Graves

Played by: Ben Peel

Raymond's Mother

Played by: Helena Bereen

Hitman

Played by: Paddy Jenkins

Father Dominic Moran

Played by: Liam Cunningham

Chief Medical Officer

Played by: Billy Clarke

Twelve Year Old Bobby

Played by: Ciaran Flynn

Loyalist Orderly

Played by: B.J. Hogg

Philadelphia Inquirer

Hunger is daunting and powerful work.

April 16, 2009

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Artforum

In such extreme circumstances, the human body may be the last desperate frontier of protest. Hunger makes this all too clear.

June 01, 2015

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Tiny Mix Tapes

There is no attempt to set Sands up as a great martyr, no Jesus pose or sentimental music to manipulate emotions. Hunger is interested in none of this. Instead, [McQueen] lets the bodies that sacrificed themselves tell the story they created.

December 12, 2015

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Chicago Tribune

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.

April 17, 2009

Stop Smiling

McQueen thus succeeds in manufacturing a palpable intensity (some of it very difficult to watch), but retreats into individual subjectivity when it might do better to open out into the larger political arena.

August 02, 2015

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Toronto Star

Relying on images more than words, it's a plea for humanity in times of insanity.

April 10, 2009

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Critic's Notebook

Mr. Sands's story loosely serves as a framework that joins together a series of filmic gallery installations that graphically explore the fragility of the human body.

October 07, 2015

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Chicago Sun-Times

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.

April 16, 2009

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Globe and Mail

Hunger -- the disturbing, provocative, brilliant feature debut from British director Steve McQueen -- does for modern film what Caravaggio did to Renaissance painting.

April 10, 2009

2UE That Movie Show

In the desolate surrounds of a prison environment that affronts humanity McQueen finds the redemptive struggles, and unrelenting spirit in the feces smeared walls of a British prison.

January 21, 2013

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New Statesman

The stylistic palette of McQueen's picture, and its grasp of cinematic vocabulary, elevate the film to a purely visceral realm, so that it seems to bypass your eyes and ears and go straight for your nerve endings.

November 02, 2015

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Chicago Reader

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.

April 17, 2009

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