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Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
A heavy sense of longing hangs over the rain-slicked streets of Belfast as a former rebel attempts to reclaim a life long since altered by iron bars. This quiet, soulful character study finds its heartbeat in the bruised connection between a man and the woman he never stopped loving.
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Jim Sheridan
Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, David Hayman, Kenneth Cranham, Lorraine Pilkington, Niall Shanahan, John Wall
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The Boxer
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6.7/10
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Director
Jim Sheridan
Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, David Hayman, Kenneth Cranham, Lorraine Pilkington, Niall Shanahan, John Wall
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