Borstal Boy Movie Review 2000

Information and Film Reviews for Borstal Boy the Movie

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Irish teen, IRA partisan, (and future writer) Brendan Behan (Hatosy) is caught smuggling dynamite into Britain and sent to reform school, known as a "borstal," in East Anglia in 1939. Naturally, he learns that all Brits aren't the devil incarnate as he befriends gay Cockney sailor Charlie (Millwall) and falls in love with fair-but-tough Warden Joyce's (York) daughter, Liz (Birthistle). Inspired by Behan's 1958 memoirs.

Distribution

Wolfe Video, PO Box 64, New Almaden, CA 95042, Phone: (408)268-6782, Toll-free: 800-438-9653, Fax: (408)268-9449, Email: maria@wolfevideo.com, URL: http://www.wolfevideo.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 91 minutes.
Originally from Irish, British.

Cast and Crew

Genres
Period Piece: 1930s, Teen Angst, This Is Your Life, Writers, Great Britain, Gays, Coming of Age, Biopics: Writers
Screenplay
Peter Sheridan, Nye Heron
Cast
Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Eva Birthistle, Michael York, Lee Ingleby, Robin Laing
Cinematography
Ciaran Tanham
Director
Peter Sheridan
Music
Stephen McKeon
Other
Phillipe Faujas, Stephen O'Connell, Michael Higgins, Marie Tierney, Crispian Sallis
Producer
Arthur Lappin, Pat Moylan, Hell's Kitchen, Dakota Films, Strand Releasing

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