Some Mother's Son

Synopsis

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.

When & where

Streaming TBA

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Helen Mirren
  as Kathleen Quigley
• 
  Fionnula Flanagan
  as Annie Higgins
• 
  Aidan Gillen
  as Gerard Quigley
• 
  David O'Hara
  as Frank Higgins
• 
  John Lynch
  as Bobby Sands
• 
  Tom Hollander
  as Farnsworth

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