Hillsborough (TV film)

Hillsborough is a madeforTV drama film written by Jimmy McGovern and starring Christopher Eccleston and Ricky Tomlinson. Set between 1989 and 1991, the film tells the story of the Hillsborough Disaster, which saw 96 football supporters lose their lives at Hillsborough in Sheffield.

In April 1989, Liverpool and Nottingham Forest met in the semifinals of the FA Cup. The match was played at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield but was abandoned shortly after the match had started when it became clear that the fans packed in to the Leppings Lane end of the ground were being crushed against fencing. 94 fans died that day, with a 95th victim dying a few days later, and the final death toll reaching 96 in 1993.The drama starred Eccleston as Trevor Hicks, whose story formed the focus of the script. Hicks lost both of his daughters 19yearold Sarah and 15yearold Victoria in the Hillsborough disaster, and went on to campaign for safer stadiums, as well as helping form the Hillsborough Families Support Group. The trauma of Hillsborough contributed to the collapse of his marriage to wife Jennifer during 1990. Other families featured were those of Ian Gloverand Adam Spearritt 14. Tomlinson was another notable actor to appear in the film, portraying the father of Ian Glover, while Mark Womack played the part of Adam Spearritts father Eddie. The story starts as the events unfold and ends in the spring of 1991, some two years after the tragedy, when the inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death on the 95 victims Tony Bland was still alive at the time, much to the outrage of the families of the victims. ........

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