Between love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make.
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.
- Suicide or self-harm
- Eating disorders
- Bleak ending
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Helen MirrenKathleen Quigley
- Fionnula FlanaganAnnie Higgins
- Aidan GillenGerard Quigley
- David O'HaraFrank Higgins
- John LynchBobby Sands
- Tom HollanderFarnsworth
- Tim WoodwardHarrington
- Ciarán HindsDanny Boyle
- Geraldine O'RaweAlice Quigley
- Gerard McSorleyFather Daly
Crew
- Terry GeorgeDirector
- Jim SheridanWriter
- Terry GeorgeWriter
- Geoffrey SimpsonDirector of Photography
- Craig McKayEditor
- Arthur LappinProducer
- Edward BurkeProducer
- Jim SheridanProducer
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