Some Mother's Son
Between love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make.
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.
Cast
Jennifer Gibney
Woman Searcher #2
Tom Hollander
Farnsworth
Ciarán Fitzgerald
Liam Quigley
Bosco Hogan
British Captain
Mal Whyte
Barrister
Richard Butler
MP (uncredited)
Helen Mirren
Kathleen Quigley
Fionnula Flanagan
Annie Higgins
Oliver Maguire
Frank Maguire
Sean Lawlor
Platoon Leader
David O'Hara
Frank Higgins
Gerard McSorley
Father Daly
Robert Lang
Government Minister
John Lynch
Bobby Sands
Stephen Hogan
Young Turk
Joan Sheehy
Woman Searcher #1
Tim Woodward
Harrington
Peter Howitt
SAS Leader
John Kavanagh
Cardinal
Tim McDonnell
Hunger Striker #2
Anthony Brophy
Prisoner's Leader
Ciarán Hinds
Danny Boyle
Aidan Gillen
Gerard Quigley
Dan Gordon
Inspector McPeake
Doreen Keogh
Mother Superior
Jer O'Leary
Hunger Striker #1
Geraldine O'Rawe
Alice Quigley
Barry Cassin
Prosecutor
Tony Flynn
Cyclist
Michael O'Sullivan
Prison Officer Davis