Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790731148
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 0790731142
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: June 02, 1998
Running Time: 112 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1996

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com essential video:
Terry George, the cowriter of In the Name of the Father, wrote and directed this 1996 drama based on actual events from 1981, when Irish Republican Army prisoners in Belfast's Maze Prison staged a hunger strike to protest against British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's political policies. Led by IRA prisoner Bobby Sands, the hunger strike eventually lead to the deaths of 10 prisoners, who had refused to wear prison uniforms to emphasize their identity as political (and not criminal) prisoners. But this fictionalized account is not about the hunger strikers as much as the moral dilemma faced by two of the strikers' mothers, played by Helen Mirren and Fionnula Flanagan in an emotional drama that gets right to the heart of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. While Annie (Flanagan) understands her son's political motivations and supports his readiness to die, Kathleen (Mirren) is a pacifist who cannot comprehend how any mother could sacrifice her own son to a political principle. The women become friends despite their opposing views, and desperately hope for a compromise in Irish-British negotiations while the hunger strikers continue to wither away. By keeping the Northern Irish conflict on such a purely personal level, Some Mother's Son both clarifies and complicates the difficult issues involved, making clear arguments for both mothers' actions in the context of a milestone event in Northern Ireland's history. The film doesn't pretend to hide its anti-British position, but the cause of death on both sides is deeply acknowledged. Through Helen Mirren's richly layered performance, Some Mother's Son asks if any belief is truly worth dying for, and poses the question on powerfully personal terms. --Jeff Shannon




Rating: - A mournful but still bold film!
The same team who made "In the name of the father" carved in relief (as any other decade) the hard conditions about the IRA . Films like Neil Jordan's Michael Collins and Alan Pakula's Devil's own. Terry Georges who had been depicted the script in "In the name... directed by Jim Sheridan now exchange roles.

1981. Margaret Thatcher inures the British politics respect IRA terrorists, becoming these political convicts into mere common thieves and confining these convicts with the worst ... Read More

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Rating: - This is worth seeing.
This would break any mother's heart. A really well put together movie. I agree, the DVD is LONG overdue!

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Rating: - Some Mother's Son
Great movie. Only wish it came on DVD now. I really hate using a VCR.

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Rating: - some mother's son
unfortunately there's no DVD with this movie... unless somebody decrypted VHS and recorded it on DVD disk...
I was looking for this movie for a long time, as I was looking for "H3".
If you are into Irish political non-fiction, I highly suggest you to watch both of them.

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Rating: - Greatest movie ever made about 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland.
I purchased this movie just recently although I've had the soundtrack to the movie for a long time & listen to it constantly. Being of part Irish descent I've always had an interest in all things Irish & especially in the IRA's struggle for independence in Northern Ireland. This is simply the best film ever made about that struggle & I've seen them all. The first time I watched it, I cried throughout the entire movie. I can't overstate how moving the soundtrack composed by Bill Whelan is. The music ... Read More

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