Some Mother's Son

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

6.7/ 10(39 votes)

1h 52m

September 13, 1996

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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Directed byTerry George

Cast (52)

Helen Mirren

Kathleen Quigley

Fionnula Flanagan

Annie Higgins

Aidan Gillen

Gerard Quigley

David O'Hara

Frank Higgins

John Lynch

Bobby Sands

Some Mother's Son

Cast (52)

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