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Mood:
- BleakEmotionalDisturbingSincereUplifting
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Plot:
- Dealing With DeathFighting the SystemPoliticsTerrorismUncover TruthHuman SpiritRedemptionDeath in the Family more...
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Genres:
- Drama
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Place:
- EuropeIreland
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Style:
- Gory
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Omagh, 2004
English
Ireland, UK
Profile of Omagh
Omagh can be described as bleak, emotional, and uplifting. The plot revolves around a death in the family, social decay, and terrorism. The main genre is drama. In terms of style, Omagh is gory. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Omagh is located in Ireland. It is originally a true story. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Omagh
On August 15, 1998, an Irish separatist group known as the Real IRA detonated a car bomb in the small market town of Omagh, Northern Ireland, claiming the lives of 31 people and injuring hundreds of others. Screenwriter Paul Greengrass dramatizes the tragic event in the Irish telefilm OMAGH, centering the action on the real-life story of one grieving father's search for justice. After losing his 21-year-old son in the blast, mild-mannered auto mechanic Michael Gallagher (Irish actor Gerald McSorley, himself an Omagh native) becomes an outspoken advocate for the victims' families as they find themselves increasingly sidelined by an indifferent bureaucracy. Like Greengrass's 2002 directorial effort, BLOODY SUNDAY, OMAGH employs a cinema-verite style marked by handheld video and gritty photography for documentary-like realism and heightened emotional impact.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Ireland, UK |
| Release date: | 21 May 2005 |
| Runtime: | 106 min |
Cast and Crew
as Michael Gallagher
as Patsy Gallagher
as Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan
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Users Reviews
- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
- Netflowers rated this movie
8/10Great
