Helen Mirren
Kathleen Quigley
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112 minutes. Countries. Ireland. United States. Language. English. 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.
- Geoffrey Simpson
- Jim Sheridan, Arthur Lappin, Edward Burke
Dec 25, 1996 · With Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara. The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
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- Drama, History
- Terry George
- 1996-12-25
Dec 27, 1996 · Kathleen Quigley ( Helen Mirren) is a pacifist, a schoolteacher who doesn't know her son Gerard ( Aidan Gillen) is even in the IRA. The other is Annie Higgins ( Fionnula Flanagan ), whose son Frank ( David O'Hara) has been implicated in a fatal mortar attack on British troops.
TRAILER. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. In 1981, Kathleen Quigley (Helen Mirren), a soft-spoken Irish schoolteacher, is shocked to learn that her son, Gerard (Aidan Gillen), has been...
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- Drama
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Two women from completely different social classes form an intense bond as their sons are sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their involvement in an IRA-sanctioned bombing. 241 IMDb 7.2 1 h 51 min 1996. X-Ray 18+. Drama · Historical · Sad. Available to rent or buy.
