The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
Acting
Gerard McSorley's restrained devastation carries every frame.
Direction
Pete Travis avoids exploitation with documentary-like restraint.
Writing
The procedural beats feel painfully, authentically bureaucratic.
Director
Pete Travis
Gerard McSorley
Michael Gallagher
Michèle Forbes
Patsy Gallagher
Brenda Fricker
Nuala O'Loan
Stuart Graham
Victor Barker
Brendan Coyle
Detective Sergeant John White
Ian McElhinney
Stanley McCombe
Stanley Townsend
Sam Pollock
Fiona Glascott
Cathy Gallagher
Kathy Kiera Clarke
Elizabeth Gibson
Alan Devlin
Laurence Rush
Francesco Quinn
Marion Radford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Michael Gallagher became a leading voice for victims' rights in Northern Ireland, co-founding the Omagh Support and Self Help Group.
Released just seven years after the actual bombing, the film premiered with survivors and families in attendance — many seeing their own trauma publicly acknowledged for the first time.
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