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Omagh (TV)

Omagh

2004

Pete Travis

Gerard McSorley, Brenda Fricker, Michèle Forbes, Stuart Graham ...

7.0

3,522

Drama In August 1998, as all of Ireland prepared to vote for peace in the Good Friday referendum, a small group of dissident Provisional IRA members opposed to the peace process were setting out to create a bomb outrage so bloody and calamitous that London and Dublin would be driven apart, unionists would withdraw from the peace process, and Northern Ireland be driven back into violent conflict. They called themselves the Real IRA. Selecting ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"'Omagh' serves as a companion piece to writer-producer Paul Greengrass’ superb 2001 pic 'Bloody Sunday,' but emerges as a startlingly powerful achievement in its own right."	POS
Australia	Jake Wilson Urbancinefile	"As propaganda on behalf of the Omagh victims the film does its work well, but in the end both the personal story and the collective one seem unsatisfactory"	NEU

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