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Sep 21, 2016 · Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, 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...
- 88 min
- 118.9K
- Sean Gallagher
Oct 23, 2012 · An emotionally moving coming-of-age drama in the tradition of 'Another Country' and 'Maurice', starring Danny Dyer, Michael York and Shawn Hatosy. Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is...
- 2 min
- 74K
- Ryan Saunders
Borstal Boy stars Shawn Hatosy as Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, who is sent on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second ...
- 2 min
- 15.3K
- Volta VOD
Dec 8, 2000 · Borstal Boy: Directed by Peter Sheridan. With Shawn Hatosy, Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney, Patricia Leventon. Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
- (2.6K)
- Drama, Romance
- Peter Sheridan
- 2000-12-08
Borstal Boy is a 2000 romantic drama film directed by Peter Sheridan, based on the 1958 autobiographical novel of the same name by Brendan Behan. Plot. In 1941, 16-year-old IRA volunteer Brendan Behan (Shawn Hatosy) is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War.
Borstal Boy is a 1958 autobiographical book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan, who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Irish republican stance and warming to his British fellow prisoners.
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Brendan Behan, a 16-year-old Republican, 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...
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