Some Mother's Son
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Terry George
Helen Mirren
Aidan Gillen
David O'hara
Gene Berrills
Hugh O'donnell
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Could you stand by and watch your son starve himself to death for his beliefs? Or would you go against his wishes and save his life even though it meant the defeat of the cause he was willing to die for? A widowed schoolteacher and life-long pacifist, Kathleen Quigley has been careful to stay clear of the war in her native Northern Ireland, instead devoting herself to the care of her three children. She is shaken out of her comfortable existence when her son Gerard is captured along with the fugitive IRA leader Frank Higgins, after a shoot-out with the British army. Gerard's imprisonment and his subsequent participation in the IRA prisoners' protest to be treated as prisoners of war draws Kathleen into Northern Ireland's political conflict and into contact with Higgins' mother Annie, a hardworking farmer and fervent IRA supporter.
Director
Terry George
Cast
Helen Mirren
Aidan Gillen
David O'hara
Gene Berrills
Hugh O'donnell
Deirdre Mcaliskey
Dan Gordon
Brian Mallon
John Higgins
Tim Woodward
Pat Mulryan
Jimmy Keogh
Anna Megan
Tony Flynn
Mal Whyte
Ciaran Fitzgerald
Ronan O'donoghue
Peter Howitt
Tom Hollander
James Hickey
Kate Perry
Bosco Hogan
Barry Cassin
Valerie Roe
Robert Taylor
Mickey Mceneaney
Ciarßn Hinds
Michael F O'sullivan
Alan Barry
Doreen Keogh
Richard Neilson
Michael Sherrie
Grainne Delany
Anthony Brophy
Geraldine O'rawe
John Lynch
Robert Lang
John Kavanagh
Jennifer Gibney
Paddy Mceneaney
Liam Byrne
Fionnuala Flanagan
Fiona Higgins
Jer O'leary
Karen Carlisle
Tim Mcdonnell
Joan Sheehy
Stephen Hogan
Gerard Mcsorley
Oliver Maguire
Sean Lawlor
Crew
John Addison
Gina R. Alfano
Mary Jo Andrews
Nat D. Ayer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Simon Baker
Borney Bargantine
Alex Bassett
Tommy Bassett
Keith Batten
Joan Bergin
Barbara Berkery
Reggie Blain
Victor Blain
Geoff Blythe
Ron Bochar
Martin Body
Andrew Boland
Robert Bookman
Paul Borg
Graham Boynon
Dan Breen
Dan Breen
A Seymour Brown
Edward Burke
Michele Burke
Alan Burns
James Butler
Chris Byrne
Darryl Byrne
Ken Byrne
Simon Carmody
Orla Carroll
Christian Castellano
Kam Chan
Ben Cheah
Paul Clayton
Patsy Cline
Charlie Clinton
Triona Coen
Barbara Cone
Marjorie Connelly
John Conroy
Louise Conroy
Paddy Corcoran
Marko Costanzo
David Crann
Alison Crosbie
Bob Crowdey
Graeme Crowther
Alan Crozier
Steve Cutmore
Brenda D'arcy
Yves De Bono
Clodagh Deegan
Jonathan Demme
Con Dempsey
Jill Dempsey
Kieran Dempsey
Patty Detroit
Danny Devenny
Conor Devlin
Richard Devlin
Christy Dimmig
Dermot Diskin
Adrienne Dollard
Emma Donnelly
Emma Donnelly
Raul Dourado
Bill Dowling
Pat Dowling
William Doyle
Thomas Drescher
Gerry Drew
Gill Ducker
Alan Dunne
Carole Dunne
Catherine Dunne
Kay Dunne
Tommy Dunne
Terry Edland
Andy Evans
Gemma Fallon
Braun Farella
Martel Farella
Steven Farrell
Patrick Farrelly
John Fenner
Chris Fielder
Arlene Fishbach
Dave Fitzgerald
John Fitzgerald
Tom Fleischman
Eric Fleming
Tim Fleming
James Flynn
Ce'sar Franck
Bill Friedrich
Louise Gaffney
Barbara Galavan
Marie George
Michael George
Oorlagh George
Seamus George
Terry George
Naomi Geraghty
Ben Gibney
Patricia Glenholmes
Liz Glotzer
Lorraine Glynn
Lewis Goldstein
Marilyn Goldsworthy
Angus More Gordon
Angus More Gordon
Mary Gough
Tony Gregory
Bill Griffin
Mark Griffin
Shane Guthrie
Phil Guy
Taylor Hackford
Pete Hamill
George Frederick Handel
Richard Harvey
Edward Hayes
Pat Hays
Paul Hedges
Peter Hedges
Dominic Hewitt
Edward Higgins
John Higgins
Rita Higgins
Harry Hill
Paddy Hiney
Bradford L Hohle
Lynne Holst
Kevin Hudson
Simon Hume
Malcolm Huse
Roy Hyatt
Donal Hynes
James Irwin
Eileen Ivers
Helen Johnson
Maurice Jones
Michael Jones
Pascal Jones
William Jones
Vivien Jordan
Ciaran Kavanagh
Jimmy Kavanagh
Peadar Kearney
Ray Keates
David Kemple
David Kennaway
Liz Kenny
Larry Kirwan
Richard Klubeck
Rene Knol
May Kuckro
Ida Landauer
Joe Landauer
Joe Landauer
Clare Langan
Arthur Lappin
Terry Laudermilch
Lindsay Law
Wayne Leach
Kathryn Lennon
Susanna Lenton
Anne Lepore
Bill Levins
Julie Lindner
Marissa Littlefield
David Lloyd
Noel Long
Dochy Lowe
Mark Lowry
Tom Lundy
Judy Lunny
Shem Lwanga
Marcus Lynch
Jim Lyndon
Marty Lyons
Philomena Mackin
Sean Mackin
Niall Mannion
Don Maton
Ian Mausner
Bernadette Mcaliskey
Theresa Mccombe
Tara Mchugh
Craig Mckay
Pat Mckay
Susan Mckenna
Seamus Mcswiney
James Merrigan
Helen Mirren
David Modol
Nuala Moiselle
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the 1996 Felix Award for Young European Film of the Year from the European Film Academy.
Released in United States Winter December 25, 1996
Released in United States December 26, 1996
Released in United States on Video September 23, 1997
Released in United States August 1996
Released in United States October 1996
Shown at Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival August 11-25, 1996.
Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival (Opening Night) East Hampton, New York October 16-20, 1996.
Shown at Mill Valley Film Festival (Closing Night) October 3-13, 1996.
Feature directorial debut for screenwriter Terry George.
Completed shooting December 1, 1995.
Began shooting October 2, 1995.
Released in United States Winter December 25, 1996
Released in United States December 26, 1996 (New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Seattle)
Released in United States on Video September 23, 1997
Released in United States August 1996 (Shown at Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival August 11-25, 1996.)
Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival (Opening Night) East Hampton, New York October 16-20, 1996.)
Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at Mill Valley Film Festival (Closing Night) October 3-13, 1996.)
