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Best: His Mother's Son

2009-04-29
5
en 90m
ComedyDramaTV Movie
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.

Writer

Terry Cafolla

Director

Colin Barr

career black and white consequences alcoholic son

Status

Released

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • BBC