Best: His Mother's Son
2009, English. Directed by Colin Barr.
Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.
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- 1h 30m
- Post-credits
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- English
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- 29 April 2009
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- Terry Cafolla
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Who directed Best: His Mother's Son?
Best: His Mother's Son (2009) was directed by Colin Barr and stars Lorcan Cranitch, Luke de Woolfson, Laurence Doherty.