Directed by:
Terry GeorgeCinematography:
Geoffrey SimpsonComposer:
Bill WhelanCast:
Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, John Lynch, Tom Hollander, Tim Woodward, Ciarán Hinds, Geraldine O'Rawe, Gerard McSorley, Peter Howitt (more)Plots(1)
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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Helen Mirren
UK
Best movies:
The Audience (2013) (theatrical recording)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016) (theatrical recording)
Prime Suspect (1991) (TV movie)
Fionnula Flanagan
Ireland
Best movies:
Song of the Sea (2014)
The Others (2001)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Aidan Gillen
Ireland
Best movies:
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Sing Street (2016)
John Lynch
UK
Best movies:
In the Name of the Father (1993)
The Fall (2013) (series)
The Secret Garden (1993)
Tom Hollander
UK
Best movies:
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
John Adams (2008) (series)
Valkyrie (2008)
Tim Woodward
UK
Best movies:
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
Murder Rooms: The Photographer's Chair (2001) (TV movie)
K-19 (2002)
Ciarán Hinds
UK
Best movies:
Hamlet (2015) (theatrical recording)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
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Geraldine O'Rawe
UK
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Gerard McSorley
UK
Best movies:
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
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Peter Howitt
UK
Best movies:
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Some Mother's Son (1996)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Bosco Hogan
Ireland
Best movies:
In the Name of the Father (1993)
The Last Duel (2021)
Some Mother's Son (1996)
John Kavanagh
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
Sinners (2002) (TV movie)
Inspector George Gently (2007) (series)
Barry Cassin
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The McKenzie Break (1970)
Ulysses (1967)
David O'Hara
UK
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
The Departed (2006)
Robert Lang
UK
Best movies:
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Othello (1965)
I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill (1974) (TV movie)
Jer O'Leary
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
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Stephen Hogan
Ireland
Best movies:
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Jennifer Gibney
Ireland
Best movies:
Some Mother's Son (1996)
Agnes Browne (1999)
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Anthony Brophy
UK
Best movies:
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Some Mother's Son (1996)
The Gathering Storm (2002) (TV movie)
Mal Whyte
Best movies:
Braveheart (1995)
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Michael Collins (1996)