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Borstal Boy

6.2 88 mins Drama   2001
British Screen Productions   BSB   Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland   Dakota Films   Hell's Kitchen   RTÉ   Full Schilling Investments  
Director(s): Peter Sheridan

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.

Casts of Borstal Boy

Shawn Hatosy

as Brendan Behan

Danny Dyer

as Charlie Milwall

Robin Laing

as Jock

Ian McElhinney

as Verreker

Eva Birthistle

as Liz Joyce

Mark Huberman

as Mac

Lee Ingleby

as Dale

Ronnie Drew

as Customs man

Eamon Glancy

as Manning

Dennis Conway

as Holmes

Patricia Leventon

as Landlady

John O'Toole

as Whitbread

Luke Hayden

as Alex

Michael York

as Joyce

Mark Lambert

as Chief Dixon

Eoin Slattery

as James

Owen Sharpe

as Albert

Viko Nikci

as Jerzy

Lukas Hassel

as Kydd

Arthur Riordan

as Liberian

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