Product Information
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. This is a dramatization of the event.Product Identifiers
ProducerPaul Greengrass
EAN5055201802163
eBay Product ID (ePID)63761381
Product Key Features
ActorBrenda Fricker, Gerard Mcsorley, Michelle Forbes
Film/TV TitleOmagh
DirectorPete Travis
LanguageEnglish
Run Time102 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2008
FeaturesIntroduction by Pete Travis\Foreword by Michael Gallagher\Commentary by Pete Travis and Michael Gallagher, Widescreen
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureIreland
Additional InformationOn 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.
ScreenwriterPaul Greengrass
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleOmagh
Consumer AdviceContains infrequent strong language, bomb injuries and distressing scenes