"The Long Good Friday" is a movie about a British gangster, which was Bob Hoskins's breakthrough movie and also stars Helen Mirren. The movie weaves together events and concerns of the late 1970s, including low-level political and police corruption, Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) gun-running, displacement of traditional British industry by property development, Britain's membership of the EEC (later the European Union), and the free market economy. The movie stars Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer and M.P.