Best: His Mother's Son

APPROPIATE

2009 / 90min.

Rating5

Genres

Comedy

Drama

TV Movie

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Michelle Fairley

Laura Donnelly

Tom Payne

Stephen Hagan

Niamh McGrady

Richard Dormer

Lorcan Cranitch

Paul Kennedy

Luke de Woolfson

Laurence Doherty

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