Movie

Some Mother's Son

1996★ 6.8

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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Cast

Helen MirrenKathleen Quigley

Fionnula FlanaganAnnie Higgins

Aidan GillenGerard Quigley

David O'HaraFrank Higgins

John LynchBobby Sands

Tom HollanderFarnsworth

Tim WoodwardHarrington

Ciarán HindsDanny Boyle

Geraldine O'RaweAlice Quigley

Gerard McSorleyFather Daly

Dan GordonInspector McPeake

Grainne DelanyTheresa Higgins

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