Some Mother's Son

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.

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 byTerry George
Produced byJim Sheridan
Arthur Lappin
Edward Burke
Written byTerry George
Jim Sheridan
Starring
Music byBill Whelan
CinematographyGeoffrey Simpson
Edited byCraig McKay
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • December 25, 1996 (1996-12-25)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryIreland
United States
LanguageEnglish
Irish
Box office$671,437

Helen Mirren and John Lynch had already acted together in the 1984 Troubles-related film Cal.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Cast

References
  1. "Festival de Cannes: Some Mother's Son". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved September 20, 2009.


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