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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance
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Director:
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Peter Sheridan
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Actors:
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Ian McElhinney,
Mark Huberman,
Jer O'Leary,
Robin Laing,
Jim Byrne,
Garret Deady,
Darren Donohue,
Ronnie Drew,
William Fitzpatrick,
Luke Griffin,
Trevor Hanly,
Lukas Hassel,
Luke Hayden,
Patricia Levento,
Keith Murtagh,
Viko Nikci,
John O'Toole,
Arthur Riordan,
Owen Sharpe,
Eoin Slattery,
Shawn Hatosy,
Danny Dyer,
Lee Ingleby,
Eva Birthistle,
Michael York
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Duration:
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88 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)97
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Plot Summary:
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Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-aged republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second time war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for babies offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to energetic face-to-audacity with those he perceived as "the the opposition," a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the infantile Brendan and forces a self-search that is both traumatizing and revealing. Events annihilate an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a c... omplete spin. In the emotional vortex, he done faces up to the actuality.
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Borstal Boy
Irish rebel Brendan Behan's autobiographical novel about life in a Borstal school is adapted by Peter Sheridan. Shawn Hatosy and Danny Dyer star
Slotting neatly into Irish cinema's tradition of solid period dramas with politically charged themes (The Magdalene Sisters, Angela's Ashes, Michael Collins) this modest little film has a troubled history. Originally released on the festival circuit in 2000, it sat on the shelf for eight years before getting a straight-to-DVD release in the UK in 2008. In the intervening period supporting star Danny Dyer has shot to fame and it's his come-and-have-a-go face that graces the cover of the DVD sleeve.
Yet Dyer isn't the borstal boy of the title and attempts to sell the film as a latter day Scum seem misguided. After all,
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