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Some Mother's Son

Between love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make.

1996 · R · 1h 52m

Directed by Terry George

6.8

TMDB audience score
42 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.

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Cast

  • Helen Mirren
    Kathleen Quigley

  • Fionnula Flanagan
    Annie Higgins

  • Aidan Gillen
    Gerard Quigley

  • David O'Hara
    Frank Higgins

  • John Lynch
    Bobby Sands

  • Tom Hollander
    Farnsworth

  • Tim Woodward
    Harrington

  • Ciarán Hinds
    Danny Boyle

  • Geraldine O'Rawe
    Alice Quigley

  • Gerard McSorley
    Father Daly

  • Dan Gordon
    Inspector McPeake

  • Grainne Delany
    Theresa Higgins

  • Ciarán Fitzgerald
    Liam Quigley

  • Robert Lang
    Government Minister

  • Stephen Hogan
    Young Turk

  • Peter Howitt
    SAS Leader

  • Bosco Hogan
    British Captain

  • Jimmy Keogh
    Jimmy Higgins