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Mood:
- CaptivatingBleakEmotionalSincereUplifting
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Plot:
- Dedicated LawyerTragic HeroFighting the SystemPoliticsHuman SpiritParents and ChildrenCustodyPolitical Unrest more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s80s
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Place:
- EuropeIrelandPrison
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Some Mother's Son, 1996
English, Irish Gaelic
Ireland, USA
Profile of Some Mother's Son
The mood of Some Mother's Son is captivating, uplifting, and bleak. The plot centers around custody issues, a dedicated lawyer, and a tragic hero. It is a drama and period movie. In approach, Some Mother's Son is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a prison. The setting is Ireland. Some Mother's Son happens in the 1980s. It is originally a true story.
Summary of Some Mother's Son
After her son is arrested, an upstanding Irish Catholic schoolteacher faces the difficult choice of standing up for her son or decrying his pro-I.R.A beliefs. Further fuel is added to the fire when, to demonstrate their status as prisoners of war, he joins his fellow inmates in a hunger strike--and indicates his willingness to die for a cause in which she does not believe.
Details
| Language: | English, Irish Gaelic |
| Country: | Ireland, USA |
| Release date: | 25 December 1996 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
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as Kathleen Quigley
as Gerard Quigley
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