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Synopsis: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Terry George
Actors: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara
Production: Warner Home Video
  4 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
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R
Year:
1996
112 min
483 Views

Gerard didn't rob it.

How do you know?

Where will you work?

I can't stay here anymore.

I hate this country.

Come on, Alice.

We're going to be late.

Will you calm down, mummy?

The plane doesn't

leave till 11:
00.

Is that too heavy for you?

No.

What are you going

to do about him?

Whatever I can.

Oh, come on.

Thank you,

Mr. Wilson.

Hello, Sam.

Hello, Tim.

You wanted to see me

about something?

This protest has been going

on for 2 years, hasn't it?

Yes.

How many are on it

at the moment?

Approximately 300, although

the figure does vary.

I want these men

in prison uniform.

Well, we pretty much

tried everything.

No, you haven't.

Come on, get up!

What?

Exercise, lads!

More dips!

Come on, get up.

Jesus.

Takes this

prisoner-of-war stuff

very serious.

It's freezin'.

Well, what's the f***in' point?

We're not going anywhere.

To keep our discipline.

Come on. Stop talking

and do the dips.

I'll tell you...

Mary would keep you up,

wouldn't she?

Oh, Mary!

Oh, go on, Mary!

What?

Sh*t.

18, 19, 20.

All right, lads,

20 press-ups!

Come on.

On the floor.

Oh, sh*t.

Start with sands.

Slop out.

No slop out without uniform.

What's going on?

No slop out without uniform.

This won't f***in' break us.

Right?

Break the window!

Break the window!

Hey, go, go, go!

Get the beds out.

Hello?

Uh, it's Annie Higgins--

Frankie's mother.

Oh.

Hello, Mrs. Higgins.

Your son wants you

to go up for a visit.

Well, um, is he

coming off the protest?

All I know is you're

to go up on Friday.

And, listen, could you ever

give us a lift up there?

What's going on,

Mrs. Higgins?

Uh, I don't know.

I don't know.

I have to go. Good-bye now.

I'll see you Friday.

No. I've given them up.

Thank you.

I'd give them up myself

only for this bloody country.

You could be dead on the minute.

Quigley.

Oh, yes.

Higgins.

Into 12.

Oh, Gerard.

Sit down.

Beards...

Makes you look older.

How's it going there,

Mrs. Quigley?

Gerard,

are you coming off the protest?

No, I'm not.

Well, then...

What's going on?

We had to get word out

about what's happened.

They won't let us

out to the toilets.

What do you do?

Well...

At the start,

we put it out the windows.

Then they blocked up

the windows,

so we put it under the door.

Then they blocked up

under the door,

so now we spread it

on the walls.

You spread your dirt

on the walls?

Well, what else can we do?

God.

How can you live like this?

Look...

I have to get a message

out to Danny Boyle.

This is really important, ma.

Let's go.

I love you.

Pass, please.

Raise your arms.

Do you have any contraband?

No.

Go on.

You all right?

Get in.

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Terry George

Terence George (born 20 December 1952) is an Irish screenwriter and director. Much of his film work (e.g. The Boxer, Some Mother's Son, and In the Name of the Father) involves "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. He was nominated for two Oscars: Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (1993; In the Name of the Father), and Best Writing, Original Screenplay (2004; Hotel Rwanda). On 26 February 2012, he received an Oscar in the live action short film category for The Shore. more…

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