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Some Mother's Son

Some Mother's Son

1996, Movie, 1h 52min

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.

Country: United States,Ireland

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Cast:

Fionnula Flanagan

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Critic Russell Smith

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8

...a lucid, fiercely moral film that strikes an artful balance between the personal and political elements of the story.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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Some Mother's Son was released in theaters on December 25, 1996.