Borstal Boy
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 15, 2002
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Strand Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Shawn Hatosy | |
Performer: | Danny Dyer, Michael York & Eva Birthistle | |
Directed by | Peter Sheridan | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Sheridan & Nye Heron | |
Produced by | Arthur Lappin | |
Executive Production by | Jim Sheridan & Nye Heron |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Dripping with cliche and bypassing no opportunity to trivialize the material.
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Boston Globe
...A likable rites-of-passage memory piece....It is an engaging nostalgia piece...
New York Times
...The inherent strength of the material as well as the integrity of the filmmakers gives this coming-of-age story restraint as well as warmth...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
A gentle and engrossing character study.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Serves as a powerful reminder that children have been willing to die for the hatred in which they've been schooled for a long time now.
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Miami Herald
Rating: 3/5 --
Hatosy's Irish accent was way better than I expected.
New Times
Rating: 2/4 --
Takes a clunky TV-movie approach to detailing a chapter in the life of the celebrated Irish playwright, poet and drinker.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description:
Peter Sheridan, the acclaimed Irish theater director and brother of film director Jim Sheridan (MY LEFT FOOT) makes his feature directorial debut with an adaptation of playwright, novelist, and political rogue Brendan Behan's autobiographical tale. In 1939, sixteen-year-old IRA recruit Behan (Shawn Hatosy), hides TNT in his trousers and boards a ferry for England, eager to further the Irish Republic's cause. Nabbed immediately by police, the underage Behan evades the hangman's noose, and is sentenced to four years at an English "borstal," or reform school, run by the paternal Governor Joyce (Michael York). The cocky idealist, now living with the enemy--troubled boys that Brendan finds remarkably similar to himself--quickly begins planning his escape. To his dismay, Brendan becomes the object of handsome thief Charlie Millwall's (Danny Dyer) wistful homosexual affections. The young Irishman fights against association with a "poofter," but in spite of himself, grows closer to Charlie. Meanwhile, Brendan begins a tenuous relationship with Joyce's daughter, Elizabeth (Eva Birthistle), a literate and upper crust painter. Hatosy and Dyer deliver nuanced performances that enhance Sheridan's loving homage to a literary legend's youthful exploration of sexuality and creativity.
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- UPC: 712267211326
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