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SOME MOTHER'S SON
Synopsis
Would you agree to let your son die if he went on a hunger strike for his beliefs? Would you go against his beliefs and save his life even though it meant the defeat of the cause he was willing to die for. Such is the dilemma facing Kathleen Quigley and Annie Higgins, two Irish mothers during the 1981 hunger strike protest, in Northern Ireland, led by Bobby Sands. The two reluctant companions hold the fate of their grown son - and the fate of the cause their son are willing to die for - in their hands. They journey through war-torn streets of Northern Ireland to the corridors of power in London, as they battle to save the lives of Sands and his fellow hunger strikers. And as the clock ticks away on their children's lives, they prepare to face the parent's nightmare, whether to let their sons live or die.
Credits
- Craig MCKAY - Film Editor
- David WILSON - Set Designer
- Terry GEORGE - Director
- Terry GEORGE - Screenplay
- Jim SHERIDAN - Screenplay
- Geoffrey SIMPSON - Cinematography
- Bill WHELAN - Music
Actors
The Official Selection 1996
Un Certain Regard
- BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA
- BUENOS AIRES VICE VERSA
- COMPAGNA DI VIAGGIO
- CONTE D'ÉTÉ
- CWAL
- FEW OF US
- FOURBI
- GABBEH
- HAIFA
- I SHOT ANDY WARHOL
- IRMA VEP
- LA BOUCHE DE JEAN-PIERRE
- LOOKING FOR RICHARD
- LOVE SERENADE
- LULU
- MOSSANE
- NO WAY TO FORGET
- PASTS
- PRAMIS
- SOME MOTHER'S SON
- SYDNEY
- THE PALLBEARER
- THE PILLOW BOOK
- THE WASTE LAND
- UN SAMEDI SUR LA TERRE