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Best: His Mother's Son
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.
Cast
- Lorcan Cranitch as Dickie Best
- Luke de Woolfson as Dave Sadler
- Laurence Doherty as Journalist
- Laura Donnelly as Barbara Best
- Richard Dormer as Ad Director
- Michelle Fairley as Ann Best
- Stephen Hagan as Steve Fullaway
- Paul Kennedy as Reporter
- Niamh McGrady as Martha Devine
- Tom Payne as George Best
- Bronágh Taggart as Ruby Emerson
Details
- Director
- Colin Barr
- Released
- April 29, 2009
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
- Studio
- BBC
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 5.0 / 10 from 2 votes
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