Borstal Boy(2001)

🎬88 min
📅2001-03-22
🎭Drama
6.2/10

Overview

Based on Irish poet Brendan Behan's experiences in a reform school in 1942. A 16 year-old Irish republican terrorist arrives on the ferry at Liverpool and is arrested for possession of explosives. He is imprisoned in a Borstal in East Anglia, where he is forced to live with his would-be enemies, an experience that profoundly changes his life.

Production

British Screen Productions, BSB, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Dakota Films, Hell's Kitchen, RTÉ, Full Schilling Investments

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Cast

Shawn Hatosy
as Brendan Behan
Danny Dyer
as Charlie Milwall
Robin Laing
as Jock
Ian McElhinney
as Verreker
Eva Birthistle
as Liz Joyce
Mark Huberman
as Mac
Lee Ingleby
as Dale
Ronnie Drew
as Customs man
Eamon Glancy
as Manning
Dennis Conway
as Holmes