| Some Mother's Son | |
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Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Terry George |
| Produced by | Edward Burke |
| Written by | Terry George Jim Sheridan |
| Starring | Helen Mirren Fionnula Flanagan Aidan Gillen David O'Hara John Lynch (actor) |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Simpson |
| Editing by | Craig McKay |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 25 December 1996 |
| Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English, Irish |
Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Irish filmmaker Terry George, co-written by Jim Sheridan, and based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in the Maze Prison, in Northern Ireland. Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner Bobby Sands (played by John Lynch) led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners, claiming that they should be treated as prisoners of war rather than criminals. The mothers of two of the strikers, played by Helen Mirren and Fionnula Flanagan, fight to save their sons' lives.
Helen Mirren and John Lynch had played together the 1984 Troubles-related TV drama Cal.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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