Borstal Boy
As a prisoner of war it is my duty to escape.
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England.
- 6.1
- 2001
- Released
- 1h 31m
Shawn Hatosy
Brendan Behan
Danny Dyer
Charlie Milwall
Robin Laing
Jock
Ian McElhinney
Verreker
Eva Birthistle
Liz Joyce
Mark Huberman
Mac
Lee Ingleby
Dale
Ronnie Drew
Customs man
Eamon Glancy
ManningDennis Conway
HolmesPatricia Leventon
LandladyJohn O'Toole
Whitbread
Luke Hayden
Alex
Michael York
Joyce
Mark Lambert
Chief Dixon
Eoin Slattery
James
Owen Sharpe
Albert
Lukas Hassel
Kydd
Arthur Riordan
Liberian
Released
en
$100,000.00
$87,400.00
- #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
Reviews
When Brendan Behan (Shawn Hatosy) arrives in Liverpool with a bag full of explosives amidst WWII, he's promptly caught and sent to a youth detention facility in Norfolk. It's run by a fair and open-minded warden (Michael York) who advises his inmates to behave themselves and all will be fine. That's easier said than done, though, as this confirmed Irish republican is not going to naturally fit in