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Borstal Boy

Borstal Boy

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 22, 2001

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Drama

User Score

62%

Original Title

Borstal Boy

Production Companies

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

Director

Peter Sheridan

Budget

$100,000

Revenue

$87,400

Description

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.