Some Mother's Son (1996)

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

Drama History

Director: Terry George

Cast: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara

Runtime112 min

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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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Some Mother's Son is a 1996 Irish-American 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 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.