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Dec 27, 1996 · Reviews. Some Mother’s Son. Roger Ebert December 27, 1996. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. If the long struggle between the British and the Irish had been carried out only on movie screens, the Irish would long since have been the victors.
71% Tomatometer 17 Reviews 86% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings In 1981, Kathleen Quigley (Helen Mirren), a soft-spoken Irish schoolteacher, is shocked to learn that her son, Gerard (Aidan Gillen...
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- Terry George
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- Helen Mirren
While Hunger tells the story in unflinching, gruesome detail, Some Mother's Son is a slightly easier but still troubling account of a desperate period of Irish and British history. Full...
Oct 16, 2023 · Parents need to know that Some Mother's Son is a powerful drama based on a real-life hunger strike that took place in Northern Ireland in 1981 by IRA members protesting against the British government. The movie mixes fictional characters and real-life key players on both sides, including real hunger strike….
- Helen Mirren, Aidan Gillen, Fionnula Flanagan
- Terry George
- Columbia Pictures
Box office. $1.9 million (US/UK) 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.
May 14, 1996 · Reviews; May 14, 1996 12:00am PT ... Some Mother's Son (Drama -- Irish-British-U.S. -- Color) A Sony release from Columbia TriStar of a Castle Rock Entertainment presentation of a Hell's Kitchen ...
Jan 1, 1996 · Reviews. Dec 31, 1995 11:00pm PT. Some Mother’s Son. The troubles in Northern Ireland are given yet another spin in Some Mother's Son, which takes the point of view of the mothers...
