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The Boxer
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.
Casts & Crew
Daniel Day-Lewis
Brian Cox
Emily Watson
Ken Stott
Gerard McSorley
David Hayman
Kenneth Cranham
Lorraine Pilkington
Niall Shanahan
John Wall
Maria McDermottroe
Eleanor Methven
Ciarán Fitzgerald
Paul Ronan
Liam Carney
Veronica Duffy
Des Braiden
Joan Brosnan Walsh
Ian McElhinney
Brian Milligan
Sean Donaghy
Nye Heron
Mick Tohill
Clayon Stewart
Gavin Kennedy
Britta Smith
Peter Sheridan
Joan Sheehy
Jer O'Leary
Mark Mulholland
John Cowley
Don Foley
Vinny Murphy
Tom Bell
Frances Tomelty
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