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Borstal Boy

Borstal Boy

6.2/ 10

TMDB Rating

52

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2001

Release Year

91 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

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.

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Keywords

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

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

January 22, 2025

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7/10

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

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