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    Some Mother's Son

    Some Mother's Son

    "Between love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make."

    1996

    1:52:44

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    6.7/10 (37)

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    Some Mother's Son

    Genre

    Drama
    History

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Terry George

    Writers

    Jim Sheridan, Terry George,

    Stars

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