Best: His Mother's Son

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• Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Colin Barr
• Cast(s): Lorcan Cranitch, Luke de Woolfson, Laurence Doherty, Laura Donnelly, Richard Dormer See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 30min
• Award(s): IFTA 2010 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Renovation Romance, Just in Time for Christmas
• Story:
  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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