Best: His Mother's Son

• Movies
• 2009-04-29
• EN
• Released
• 2h 30m
• GB
• Comedy - Drama - TV Movie

• 5.0
• 2

Production

BBC

Storyline

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.