Some Mother's Son
1996 · 6.8 TMDB · Drama, History
Synopsis
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.
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The 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)
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