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Borstal Boy
Summary: Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
Release Date: December 08, 2000
Director:
Peter Sheridan
Runtime: 1 h 31 min
MPAA: Not Rated
Production: Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, British Screen Productions, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), Dakota Films, Full Schilling Investments, Hell's Kitchen Films, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Language: English
Domestic: $ 87,400
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