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Hunger
Why this pick
Like Five Minutes of Heaven, it confronts the Troubles through intensely physical, morally unyielding drama, using restraint and close observation rather than political spectacle.
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MOVIE2009 1h 29m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In Lurgan, Northern Ireland, during 1975 and the Northern Irish Troubles, the Provisional Irish Republican Army are targeting British loyalists and the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (1966) are exacting revenge on Catholics they claim are militant republicans. Alistair Little, 17, is the leader of a UVF cell, eager to let blood. He and his gang are given the go-ahead to kill a young Catholic man, James Griffin, as a reprisal and a warning to others. When they kill Griffin, his 8-year old little brother Joe watches in horror. Little is arrested and sentenced to prison for 12 years.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Liam Neeson
Alistair Little
Gerard Jordan
Jim
Niamh Cusack
Alistair's Mum - 1975
Barry McEvoy
Joe's Chauffeur - 2008
Richard Dormer
Michael - 2008
James Nesbitt
Joe Griffin
Anamaria Marinca
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