Best: His Mother's Son
Comedy
Drama
TV 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.
2009-04-29
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Cast
Director
Colin Barr
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