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Borstal Boy

Borstal Boy

Mar 22, 2001 1h 28m
6.2
44 votes

Synopsis

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.

Title Borstal Boy
Companies British Screen Productions, BSB, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Dakota Films, Hell's Kitchen, RTÉ, Full Schilling Investments
Countries United Kingdom, Ireland
Keywords homophobia, bullying, liverpool, england, coming of age, cross dressing, accidental death, ira (irish republican army), based on memoir or autobiography, teenage boy, reform school, norfolk, 1940s, borstal, gay theme, gay teenager