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Title: Borstal Boy
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 28/04/2008
Genre: Drama
Actors: Mark Huberman, Luke Hayden, Garret Deady, Darren Donohue, Michael York, Danny Dyer, Shawn Hatosy, Robin Laing, Eva Birthistle, Lee Ingleby
Director: Peter Sheridan
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 93 minutes
Region Code: Region 2
Studio: Revolver Entertainment
Certificate: 15
Description: Adaptation of playwright, novelist, and political rogue Brendan Behan's autobiographical tale. In 1939, 16-year-old IRA recruit Behan (Shawn Hatosy), hides TNT in his trousers and boards a ferry for England, eager to further the Irish Republic's cause. Nabbed immediately by police, the underage Behan evades the hangman's noose, and is sentenced to four years at an English 'Borstal', or reform school, run by the paternal Governor Joyce (Michael York). The cocky idealist, now living with the enemy - troubled boys that Brendan finds remarkably similar to himself - quickly begins planning his escape. To his dismay, Brendan becomes the object of handsome thief Charlie Millwall's (Danny Dyer) wistful homosexual affections. The young Irishman fights these affections but, in spite of himself, grows closer to Charlie. Meanwhile, Brendan begins a tenuous relationship with Joyce's daughter, Elizabeth (Eva Birthistle), a literate and upper-crust painter.

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