Some Mother's Son 1996

Synopsis

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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Cast

• Helen Mirren Kathleen Quigley
• Fionnula Flanagan Annie Higgins
• Aidan Gillen Gerard Quigley
• David O'Hara Frank Higgins
• John Lynch Bobby Sands
• Tom Hollander Farnsworth
• Tim Woodward Harrington
• Ciarán Hinds Danny Boyle
• Geraldine O'Rawe Alice Quigley
• Gerard McSorley Father Daly

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