Borstal Boy

Movie
TitleBorstal Boy
User score

6.1

Release dateMar 22, 2001
GenreDrama
DirectorPeter Sheridan
Production countryUnited Kingdom, Ireland
Production companiesBritish Screen Productions, BSB
Run time93 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.

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