Some Mother's Son

Name: Some Mother's Son
Director: Terry George
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1996-09-13
Duration: 1 h 52 min
Rating: 6.768
Cast: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara, John Lynch

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

1996

1h 52m

Drama History

Director: Terry George

Writers: Terry George, Jim Sheridan

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.