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.
Some Mother's Son (1996)
Directed by Terry George
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Movie Info
Official Site
Box Office
$671,437
Themes
Tags
British Prison, Candlelight Vigil, Hunger Strike, Ira, Ireland, Mother, Prisoner, Son, Strike, Struggle, True Stories
Attributes
Narrative Location: Belfast
Subject: 1981 Irish hunger strike, Irish Republican Army, parent–child relationship, The Troubles
Time Period: 1981
Subject: 1981 Irish hunger strike, Irish Republican Army, parent–child relationship, The Troubles
Time Period: 1981
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Alternate Titles
Elämän hinta
FI
Em Nome do Filho...
PT
Emad ja pojad
EE
En el nombre del hijo
ES
En mors son
SE
Madres en lucha
AR
Mães em Luta
BR
Mütter & Söhne
DE
O da bir ana!
TR
Őt is anya szülte
HU
Polemistes tou IRA
GR
Pour l'amour de mon fils
CA
Some Mother's Son
GB, US
Sons and Warriors
Spirala przemocy
PL
Teufelskreis der Gewalt
DE
Una scelta d'amore
IT
Πολεμιστές του IRA
GR
Син порядної матері
UA
Сыновья
RU