< Some Mother's Son (1996)

MOVIE | 1h 52m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 7.2 (3_174)

Drama, History | The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.

• Director: Terry George
• Helen Mirren (51) - Kathleen Quigley
• Fionnula Flanagan (55) - Annie Higgins
• Aidan Gillen (28) - Gerard Quigley
• David O'Hara (31) - Frank Higgins
• John Lynch (35) - Bobby Sands
• Tom Hollander (29) - Farnsworth
• Tim Woodward (43) - Harrington
• Ciarán Hinds (43) - Danny Boyle
• Geraldine O'Rawe - Alice Quigley
• Gerard McSorley (46) - Fr. Daly
• Dan Gordon (33) - Inspector McPeake
• Grainne Delany - Theresa Higgins
• Ciarán Fitzgerald (13) - Liam Quigley
• Robert Lang (62) - Government Minister
• Stephen Hogan - Young Turk
• Peter Howitt (39) - SAS Leader
• Bosco Hogan (47) - British Captain
• Jimmy Keogh - Jimmy Higgins
• John Kavanagh (50) - Cardinal
• Oliver Maguire - Frank Maguire