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Some Mother's Son

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Some Mother's Son (1996)

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Average Rating:8.0/10

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: After her son is arrested, an upstanding Irish Catholic schoolteacher faces the difficult choice of standing up for her son or decrying his pro-I.R.A beliefs. Further fuel is added to the fire... After her son is arrested, an upstanding Irish Catholic schoolteacher faces the difficult choice of standing up for her son or decrying his pro-I.R.A beliefs. Further fuel is added to the fire when, to demonstrate their status as prisoners of war, he joins his fellow inmates in a hunger strike--and indicates his willingness to die for a cause in which she does not believe. [More]

Starring: Helen Mirren, Aidan Gillen, Fionnula Flanagan, David O'Hara

Starring: Helen Mirren, Aidan Gillen, Fionnula Flanagan, David O'Hara, John Lynch, Tom Hollander, Tim Woodward, Ciaran Hinds, Geraldine O'Rawe, Gerard McSorley, Dan Gordon, Grainne Delany, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Robert Lang, Stephen Hogan, Peter Hewitt, Bosco Hogan, Jimmy Keogh, Doreen Keogh, John Kavanagh, Oliver Maguire, Anna Megan, Hugh O'Donnell, John Higgins, Joan Sheehy, Jennifer Gibney, Mal Whyte, Alan Barry, Barry Cassin, Brian Mallon, Sean Lawlor, Michael Sherrie, James Hickey, Karen Carlisle, Fiona Higgins, Jer O'Leary, Tim McDonnell, Tony Flynn, Liam Byrne, Pat Mulryan, Valerie Roe, Deirdre McAliskey, Michael F. O'Sullivan, Robert Taylor, Kate Perry, Anthony Brophy, Mickey McEneany, Paddy McEneany, Gene Berrills, Ronan O'Donoghue, Richard Neilson

Director: Terry George

Director: Terry George
Producer: Edward Burke, Arthur Lappin, Jim Sheridan
Screenwriter: Terry George, Jim Sheridan
Composer: Bill Whelan

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Sep 23, 1997

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