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.

Genre:

Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

Duration:

90 min

Cast:

Lorcan Cranitch, Luke de Woolfson, Laurence Doherty

Quality:

HD

Director:

Colin Barr

Release:

2009

Country:

United Kingdom

Rating:

5.0