Released
Borstal Boy
March 22 2001 (almost 24 years ago)Rating
61
Based on
43 reviews
- Director: Peter Sheridan
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 28 m
- Budget: $100,000
- Box office: $87,400
- Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland
- Companies: British Screen Productions, BSB, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Dakota Films, Hell's Kitchen, RTÉ, Full Schilling Investments
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.
