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Release Date: 1996

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

Categories: Movies, Political drama

Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Northern 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. Helen Mirren and John Lynch had played... MORE

Some Mother's Son is a 1996 film written and directed by Northern 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. Helen Mirren and John Lynch had played together the 1984 Troubles-related TV drama Cal. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. LESS