Some Mother's Son
| Some Mother's Son | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| 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 |
| Music by | Bill Whelan |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Simpson |
| Editing by | Craig McKay |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release dates | 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. When the prisoners go on hunger strike and become incapacitated, the mothers must decide whether to abide by their sons' wishes, or to go against them and have them forcibly fed.
Helen Mirren and John Lynch had played together the 1984 Troubles-related film Cal.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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
References
- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Some Mother's Son". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
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