Some Mother's Son

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

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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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Creators

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Terry George

director

Jim Sheridan

writer

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Terry George

writer

Cast

Helen Mirren actor Fionnula Flanagan actor Aidan Gillen actor David O'Hara actor John Lynch actor Tom Hollander actor Tim Woodward actor Ciarán Hinds actor

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Geraldine O'Rawe actor

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Gerard McSorley actor

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Dan Gordon actor

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Grainne Delany actor

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Ciarán Fitzgerald actor Robert Lang actor Stephen Hogan actor Peter Howitt actor Bosco Hogan actor

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Jimmy Keogh actor John Kavanagh actor

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Oliver Maguire actor