- Some Mother's Son
Infobox_Film
name = Some Mother's Son
imdb_id = 0117690
writer =Terry George Jim Sheridan
starring =Helen Mirren Fionnula Flanagan Aidan Gillen David O'Hara John Lynch (actor)
director =Terry George
editing = Craig McKay
released =1996
runtime = 112 min
language = English, Irish
budget ="Some Mother's Son" is a
1996 film written and directed by Irish filmmakerTerry George , co-written by Jim Sheridan, and based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in theMaze Prison , inNorthern Ireland .Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisonerBobby 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 byHelen Mirren andFionnula Flanagan , fight to save their sons' lives.Helen Mirren and John Lynch had played together the 1984 Troubles-related TV drama Cal.
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