Borstal Boy (2001)1h31
Drama
Director Peter Sheridan
Also directed The Breakfast, Oxygen
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England.
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Cast
Shawn Hatosy
Danny Dyer
Robin Laing
Ian McElhinney
Eva Birthistle- Mark Huberman
Lee Ingleby
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