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Some Mother's Son is a american film of genre Drama directed by Terry George released in USA on 25 december 1996 with Helen Mirren
Some Mother's Son (1996)
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Add to a movie listSome 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 already acted together in the 1984 Troubles-related film Cal.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Some Mother's Son". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
Synopsis
Le calvaire de deux meres, Kathleen Quigley et Annie Higgins Higgins, dechirees entre la vie de leurs fils grevistes de la faim et la liberte de l'Irlande.Actors
Helen Mirren
(Kathleen Quigley)
Fionnula Flanagan
(Annie Higgins)
Aidan Gillen
(Gerard Quigley)
David O'Hara
(Frank Higgins)
John Lynch
(Bobby Sands)
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