| Gerard McSorley, Michele Forbes, Brenda
Fricker, Stuart Graham, Peter Ballance,
A devastated father struggles to find answers after a bomb detonated
in the peaceful Irish town of Omagh claims the life of his twenty-one
year-old son in this topical docudrama from writer/producer Paul
Greengrass and director Pete Travis. In 1988 a group who referred
to themselves as the "Real IRA" set a bomb that took the
lives of thirty-one people in the Northern Ireland town of Omaga.
In the aftermath of the explosion, soft-spoken mechanic Michael
Gallagher (Gerard McSorley) was forever changed by the loss of his
twenty-one year-old son. Determined not to let the same grim fate
befall his neighbors, Gallagher took it upon himself to become the
official spokesperson for the victim's families, challenging the
government's official stand on terrorism and providing a voice for
the grief-stricken families of the innocent victims killed in the
blast. |