Some Mother's Son

For the song "Some Mother's Son" by The Kinks, see Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Some Mother's Son
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Terry George
Written by	Terry George Jim Sheridan
Produced by	Edward Burke
Starring	Helen Mirren Fionnula Flanagan Aidan Gillen David O'Hara John Lynch
Cinematography	Geoffrey Simpson
Edited by	Craig McKay
Music by	Bill Whelan
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	25 December 1996
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Ireland
Languages	English, Irish

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 played together 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 – 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
• Dan Gordon – Inspector McPeake
• Grainne Delany – Theresa Higgins
• Ciarán Fitzgerald – Liam Quigley
• Robert Lang – Government Minister
• Stephen Hogan – Young Turk

External links

• Some Mother's Son at IMDb