Some Mother's Son (1996)

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

Movie · Drama, History · 1h 52m · Rated 6.8/10 on TMDB · Released September 13, 1996

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.

Directed by Terry George

Cast

• Helen Mirren as Kathleen Quigley
• Fionnula Flanagan as Annie Higgins
• Aidan Gillen as Gerard Quigley
• David O'Hara as Frank Higgins
• John Lynch as Bobby Sands
• Tom Hollander as Farnsworth
• Tim Woodward as Harrington
• Ciarán Hinds as Danny Boyle
• Geraldine O'Rawe as Alice Quigley
• Gerard McSorley as Father Daly
• Dan Gordon as Inspector McPeake
• Grainne Delany as Theresa Higgins

More like this

• Hunger (2008)
• Maze (2017)
• Bloody Sunday (2002)
• The Last Castle (2001)
• Against the Wall (1994)
• The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
• Nowhere to Run (1993)
• Bad Boys (1983)
• Return to Sender (2015)
• Scum (1979)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
• Animal Factory (2000)

Movie and show details come from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.