Borstal Boy Movie Review 2000

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