borstal boy

Director: peter sheridan

Actor: shawn hatosy,danny dyer,eamon glancy,ian mcelhinney

Data Published: Fri Dec 08 2000

Genres: Drama,Romance

Key Words: train station,breaking down a door,borstal,writer,irish

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221838/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borstal_Boy_(film)

Description: Borstal Boy is a movie starring Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, and Eamon Glancy. Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan, is befriended as a teenager in a British labor camp by a liberal warden.

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. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he regarded as his enemies, a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.