Borstal Boy
MovieTitle | Borstal Boy |
User score | 6.1 |
Release date | Mar 22, 2001 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Peter Sheridan |
Production country | United Kingdom, Ireland |
Production companies | British Screen Productions, BSB |
Run time | 93 min. |
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.