Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara, Fionnula Flanagan

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 f...( read more  read more... )or? 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.

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R, 1 hr. 50 min.

Directed by: Bill Whelan, Terry George

Release Date: December 27, 1996

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  • November 30, 2007
    This is a great film that I can't help but watch every now and then.
  • February 4, 2009
    It's irish. 5 stars straight away! But seriously I may be biased but I enjoy all films about the troubles in Ireland.
  • December 31, 2007
    Gives a fairly good insight into the ' H Block ' prisoner story but not enough attention to detail really. I think there should be a more biographical movie made about this story and Bobby Sands and the other POWs. Great actors all around in this one however. If you dont know ab...( read more)out this story or the H Block prisoners , this film is a good way to start your research. Not too complicated,,,not too boring. Makes you think!
  • November 30, 2007
    One must do what one must do. Awesome
  • June 22, 2007
    haven't seen it in years!!
  • June 18, 2007
    set during the hunger strikes
  • June 1, 2007
    I only have this on VHS...I wish I could find it on DVD
  • May 11, 2007
    slt moi c'est boukary depuis le BURKINA FASO je suis vraiment tres content de correspondre avec vous
    repondez car je vraiment tres content de lire le prochain en toute joie bye merci

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