Best: His Mother's Son

April. 29,2009      
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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