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Release Date:
25 December 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
Between love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make.
Plot:
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands...
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Prisoner Of War
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Strike
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Prison
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Hunger Strike
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4 wins
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Helen Mirren | ... | Kathleen Quigley | |
| Fionnula Flanagan | ... | Annie Higgins | |
| Aidan Gillen | ... | Gerard Quigley | |
| David O'Hara | ... | Frank Higgins | |
| John Lynch | ... | Bobby Sands | |
| Tom Hollander | ... | Farnsworth | |
| Tim Woodward | ... | Harrington | |
| Ciarán Hinds | ... | Danny Boyle | |
| Geraldine O'Rawe | ... | Alice Quigley | |
| Gerard McSorley | ... | Fr. Daly | |
| Dan Gordon | ... | Inspector McPeake | |
| Grainne Delany | ... | Theresa Higgins | |
| Ciarán Fitzgerald | ... | Liam Quigley | |
| Robert Lang | ... | Government Minister | |
| Stephen Hogan | ... | Young Turk |
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Sons and Warriors (video catalogue title)
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Rated R for language and some political violence and suffering.
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112 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:12 |
South Korea:15 |
Germany:12 (bw) |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Ireland:15 (re-rating on appeal) |
Ireland:18 (original rating)
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First full length feature film of Tom Hollander.
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Anachronisms: Outside the prison you can clearly see an Austin Metro Mk2 which was not released till late 1984. This film is based in 1981.
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We want to make the prisons an asset, not a liability. It is in the prisons that we will break the backs of the IRA.
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Version of The Rising of the Moon (2002)
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Star of Desire
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I only loosely knew about the Irish Hunger Strikers when I saw "Some Mother's Son". It shocked me what the movie portrayed. It's about not only the men themselves, but how two of the mothers have to try and maintain hope as the men remain in jail, starving because they dared to resist the British occupation. True, the whole situation in Northern Ireland may be a controversial one, but this movie gives it all a humanizing aspect, showing what it really feels like to have to experience the oppression every day. Helen Mirren, as one of the mothers, turns in as good a performance as we can expect from her (why has she never won an Oscar?) as does Fionnula Flanagan, as another mother. Definitely a movie that I recommend.