Some Mother's Son

Movie

Some Mother's Son

Drama

History

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.

Date: 09/13/1996

Rating: 6.6

Cast: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara, John Lynch, Tom Hollander, Tim Woodward, Ciarán Hinds, Geraldine O'Rawe, Gerard McSorley, Dan Gordon, Grainne Delany, Ciarán Fitzgerald, Robert Lang, Stephen Hogan, Peter Howitt, Bosco Hogan, Jimmy Keogh, John Kavanagh, Oliver Maguire, Doreen Keogh, Anna Megan, Hugh O'Donnell, John Higgins, Joan Sheehy, Mal Whyte, Alan Barry, Barry Cassin, Brian Mallon, Sean Lawlor, Michael Sherrie, James Hickey, Karen Carlisle, Fiona Higgins, Jer O'Leary, Tim McDonnell, Tony Flynn, Liam Byrne, Pat Mulryan, Valerie Roe, Deirdre McAliskey, Michael O'Sullivan, Jennifer Gibney, Robert Taylor, Kate Perry, Anthony Brophy, Mickey McEneaney, Patrick McEneaney, Gene Berrills, Ronan O'Donoghue, Richard Neilson, Richard Butler

Helen Mirren