Some Mother's Son (1996)
September 13, 1996Release Date
Some Mother's Son (1996)
September 13, 1996Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
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
Dan Gordon
Inspector McPeake
Gerard McSorley
Fr. Daly
Grainne Delany
Theresa Higgins
Terry George
Director
Ciarán Fitzgerald
Liam Quigley
Robert Lang
Government Minister
Jim Sheridan
Writer
Edward Burke
Producer
Stephen Hogan
Young Turk
Arthur Lappin
Producer
Peter Howitt
SAS Leader
Bosco Hogan
British Captain
Bill Whelan
Composer
Jimmy Keogh
Jimmy Higgins
Geoffrey Simpson
Cinematographer
John Kavanagh
Cardinal
Oliver Maguire
Frank Maguire
Craig McKay
Editor
Doreen Keogh
Mother Superior
Nuala Moiselle
CastingDirector
David Wilson
ProductionDesigner
Anna Megan
Rosie Quigley
Hugh O'Donnell
Paddy
John Higgins
John Deegan
Joan Sheehy
Woman Searcher #1
Mal Whyte
Barrister
Alan Barry
Judge
Barry Cassin
Prosecutor
Brian Mallon
Prison Officer Jones
Sean Lawlor
Platoon Leader
Michael Sherrie
Assistant Governor
James Hickey
Young Son
Karen Carlisle
Prisoner's Girlfriend
Fiona Higgins
Prisoner's Sister
Jer O'Leary
Hunger Striker #1
Tim McDonnell
Hunger Striker #2
Tony Flynn
Cyclist
Liam Byrne
Prisoner Murphy
Pat Mulryan
IRA Man #1
Valerie Roe
Girl in Farnsworth's Office
Deirdre McAliskey
Woman in Court
Michael O'Sullivan
Prison Officer Davis
Jennifer Gibney
Woman Searcher #2
Robert Taylor
Election Agent
Kate Perry
Prison Officer's Widow
Anthony Brophy
Prisoner's Leader
Mickey McEneaney
Merry Mac
Patrick McEneaney
Merry Mac
Gene Berrills
Merry Mac
Ronan O'Donoghue
Radio Announcer
Richard Neilson
Radio Announcer
Richard Butler
MP (uncredited)
Michèle Burke
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Ron Bochar
Sound Effects Editor
Kam Chan
Foley Editor
Marko Costanzo
Foley Artist
Lewis Goldstein
Sound Effects Editor
Rod Stoneman
Executive Producer
Joan Bergin
Costume Design
Patrick Farrelly
Co-Producer
Kate O'Callaghan
Co-Producer
Philip Stockton
Supervising Sound Editor
Tom Fleischman
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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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.