Some Mother's Son

09/13/1996

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1hr 52min

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Drama

,History

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

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Helen Mirren
  • Fionnula Flanagan
  • Aidan Gillen
  • David O'Hara
  • John Lynch

    Directors

  • Terry George
  • Jim Sheridan
  • Kate O'Callaghan

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Hell's Kitchen
  • Castle Rock Entertainment
  • Columbia Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Irish