The Boxer R

The Boxer
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 7, 1998
  • Originally Released: 1997
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 8,303
The critic dutifully tabulated each blunt plot point, each refried cliche.. And yet, when Danny's nemesis did something monstrously rotten, the critic was so enraged by the dastardly act that he had to stop himself from spitting his candy. Full Review
TIME Magazine
May 14, 2013
Rating: B- -- It is well acted and directed... It's just the script that could have been a little more memorable. Full Review
rachelsreviews.net
Mar 11, 2019
...Quietly intense performances from Day-Lewis and Emily Watson....Brilliant cinematography...
Sight and Sound
Mar 1, 1998
Rating: B -- The art-house dream-team pairing of Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson amounts to more of a soft jab than a knockout punch. Full Review
Philadelphia Daily News
May 14, 2013
What makes The Boxer as potent as it is are the performances, especially Daniel Day-Lewis' contained powerhouse. His Danny is a closed-off man, shadowboxing with his private demons, who comes painfully, but gloriously, back to life. Full Review
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
May 14, 2013
Rating: 2.5/4 -- We never figure out, though, what drives Day-Lewis' Danny. We just take it on faith that he's stubborn and sick of violence. The filmmakers don't help much, offering just a twist on the star-crossed lovers story, mixed with standard boxing melodrama.
Florida Times-Union
May 14, 2013
...A haunting love story....[Day-Lewis and Watson] ignite so combustibly that you can't fail to be moved...
Rolling Stone
Jan 22, 1998

Product Description:

Daniel Day-Lewis stars in this searing portrait of 1990s Belfast ripped apart by 20 years of religious conflict and IRA violence. Danny Flynn (Day-Lewis), a repentant IRA operative seasoned by a 14-year prison term, returns to the neighborhood of his childhood to try to rebuild his life. A prizefighter in his youth, he teams up with his old trainer (Ken Stott) to reopen a nonsectarian boxing gym in a bombed-out community center. Meanwhile, Danny finds himself undeniably drawn to his old girlfriend Maggie (Emily Watson), who is now married to his former best friend, an imprisoned IRA member. Maggie's father, Joe Hamil (Brian Cox), the head of the local IRA chapter, is attempting to negotiate an IRA cease-fire, causing extreme tension between IRA factions with opposing views. Danny and Maggie's rekindled love, which defies the IRA rule promising death for anyone having an affair with an imprisoned operative's wife, thrusts Danny straight into the center of the erupting tensions. Irish director Jim Sheridan and British actor Daniel Day-Lewis (who worked together on IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER and MY LEFT FOOT) once again team up with wondrous results, creating a vivid and captivating portrait of an Ireland intimately torn by ancient religious strife.

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  • UPC: 025192024023
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