Borstal Boy

2001 6.2 (45 votes) 1h 28m

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Genres

Drama

Production Companies

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

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.