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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.

Cast



* Helen Mirren as Kathleen Quigley

* Fionnula Flanagan as Annie Higgins

* Aidan Gillen as Gerard Quigley

* David O'Hara as Frank Higgins

* John Lynch as Bobby Sands

* Tom Hollander as Farnsworth

* Tim Woodward as Harrington

* Ciarn Hinds as Danny Boyle

* Geraldine O'Rawe as Alice Quigley

* Gerard McSorley as Father Daly

* Dan Gordon as Inspector McPeake

* Grainne Delany as Theresa Higgins

* Ciarn Fitzgerald as Liam Quigley

* Robert Lang as Government Minister

* Oliver Maguire as Frank Maguire

* Stephen Hogan as Young Turk

* Myles Walsh as Man at Church door

References




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