---
title: 'Some Mother''s Son (1996)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Terry George'
released: '1996-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 112
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
  - 'Ireland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/some-mothers-son-1996'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117690/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Some Mother's Son (1996)

1996 · 112 min · Drama · United States, Ireland


## Synopsis

Some Mother's Son is a 1996 Irish-American 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 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Terry George](https://cinepixo.com/people/terry-george)
- **Screenplay:** [Terry George](https://cinepixo.com/people/terry-george), [Jim Sheridan](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-sheridan)
- **Producer:** [Jim Sheridan](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-sheridan), [Arthur Lappin](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-lappin), [Edward Burke](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-burke)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bill Whelan](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-whelan)
- **Director of Photography:** [Geoffrey Simpson](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoffrey-simpson)
- **Editor:** [Craig McKay](https://cinepixo.com/people/craig-mckay)

## Cast

- [Ciarán Hinds](https://cinepixo.com/people/ciaran-hinds) as Danny Boyle
- [Peter Howitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-howitt) as SAS Leader
- [Geraldine O'Rawe](https://cinepixo.com/people/geraldine-o-rawe) as Alice Quigley
- [John Kavanagh](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-kavanagh)
- [David O'Hara](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-o-hara) as Frank Higgins
- [Helen Mirren](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-mirren) as Kathleen Quigley
- [Fionnula Flanagan](https://cinepixo.com/people/fionnula-flanagan) as Annie Higgins
- [Tim Woodward](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-woodward) as Harrington
- [John Lynch](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-lynch) as Bobby Sands
- [Tom Hollander](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-hollander) as Farnsworth
- [Aidan Gillen](https://cinepixo.com/people/aidan-gillen) as Gerard Quigley
- [Gerard McSorley](https://cinepixo.com/people/gerard-mcsorley) as Father Daly

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