Kathleen Quigley
Helen Mirren
Kathleen Quigley
Some Mother's Son
“Between love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make.”
6.7
1996
1h 52m
DramaHistory
Director: Terry George
Overview
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.
Cast
Annie Higgins
Fionnula Flanagan
Annie Higgins
Gerard Quigley
Aidan Gillen
Gerard Quigley
Frank Higgins
David O'Hara
Frank Higgins
Bobby Sands
John Lynch
Bobby Sands
Farnsworth
Tom Hollander
Farnsworth
Harrington
Tim Woodward
Harrington
Danny Boyle
Ciarán Hinds
Danny Boyle
Alice Quigley
Geraldine O'Rawe
Alice Quigley
Father Daly
Gerard McSorley
Father Daly
Inspector McPeake
Dan Gordon
Inspector McPeake
Theresa Higgins
Grainne Delany
Theresa Higgins
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