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Some Mother's Son

Year:

1996

Duration:

112 min

Genres:

Drama | History

IMDB rate:

7.4

Director:

Terry George

Awards:

4 wins

Details

Country: Ireland

Release Date: 1996-12-25

Filming Locations: Skerries, Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $114,309 (USA) (29 December 1996)

Gross: $608,032 (USA) (9 February 1997)

Cast

Actor

Character

Aidan Gillen

Doreen Keogh

Helen Mirren

Kathleen Quigley

Fionnula Flanagan

Annie Higgins

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

Peter Howitt

SAS Leader

Bosco Hogan

British Captain

Jimmy Keogh

Jimmy Higgins

John Kavanagh

Cardinal

Oliver Maguire

Frank Maguire

Anna Megan

Rosie Quigley

Hugh O'Donnell

Paddy

John Higgins

John Deegan

Joan Sheehy

Woman Searcher No. 1

Mal Whyte

Barrister

Alan Barry

Judge

Barry Cassin

Prosecutor

Brian Mallon

Prison Officer Jones

Sean Lawlor

Platoon Leader (as Seán Lawlor)

Michael Sherrie

Assistant Governor

James Hickey

Young Son

Karen Carlisle

Prisoner's Girlfriend

Fiona Higgins

Prisoner's Sister

Jer O'Leary

Hunger Striker No. 1

Tim McDonnell

Hunger Striker No. 2

Tony Flynn

Cyclist

Liam Byrne

Prisoner Murphy

Pat Mulryan

IRA Man No. 1

Valerie Roe

Girl in Farnsworth's Office

Deirdre McAliskey

Woman in Court

Michael O'Sullivan

Prison Officer Davis (as Michael F. O'Sullivan)

Jennifer Gibney

Woman Searcher No. 2

Robert Taylor

Election Agent

Kate Perry

Prison Officer's Widow

Anthony Brophy

Prisoner's Leader

Mickey McEneaney

Merry Mac

Patrick McEneaney

Merry Mac (as Paddy McEneaney)

Gene Berrills

Merry Mac

Ronan O'Donoghue

Radio Announcer

Richard Neilson

Radio Announcer

Margaret Thatcher

Herself (uncredited)

Annie Warburton

Prison Officer (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

This was to have originally been a production of American Playhouse, a division of PBS, that would have co-financed the film with The Samuel Goldwyn Company. However the folding of the American Playhouse label combined with Goldwyn's financial troubles led to the film going into turnaround, where it was eventually produced by Castle Rock Entertainment.

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Named after The Kinks' song of the same title.

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Character actor Robert Lang was reunited on screen in this film opposite Helen Mirren nearly 25 years after portraying her father in Savage Messiah (1972) by Ken Russell.

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Goofs

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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The film is clearly set in a border seaside fishing village in Ireland. However, Kathleen is clearly seen voting in the Fermanagh-South Tyrone by-election: a completely land-locked constituency.

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Quotes

Farnsworth: 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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