Some Mother's Son

For the song "Some Mother's Son" by The Kinks, see Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Some Mother's Son
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
Edited by	Craig McKay
Production company	Castle Rock Entertainment
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	25 December 1996
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United States
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 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.^[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.

External links

Some Mother's Son at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Terry George

Some Mother's Son (1996) A Bright Shining Lie (1998) Hotel Rwanda (2004) Reservation Road (2007) The Shore (2011) Whole Lotta Sole (2011)

European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year (Best Young Film)

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