Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- Ireland, United Kingdom, XI
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
- prison
- police brutality
- prisoner
- hunger strike
- biography
- northern ireland
- ira (irish republican army)
- belfast
- north ireland
- catholic priest
- 1980s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michael Fassbender
Bobby Sands
Stuart Graham
Ray Lohan
Liam Cunningham
Priest
Helena Bereen
Raymond's Mother
- Laine Megaw — Raymond's Wife
- Brian Milligan — Davey Gillen
- Liam McMahon — Gerry Campbell
- Karen Hassan — Gerry's Girlfriend
- Frank McCusker — The Governor
- Lalor Roddy — William
- Des McAleer — Mr Sands
- Helen Madden — Mrs. Sands
- Paddy Jenkins — Hitman
- Geoff Gatt — Bearded Man
- Rory Mullen — Priest
- Directed
- Steve McQueen
- Written
- Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 1,238 ratings
- Studio
- Film4 Productions, Northern Ireland Screen, Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, Wales Creative IP Fund, Blast! Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
