Synopsis
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.
Awards
Details
- Released
- 31 December 1997
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Director
- Jim Sheridan
- Writers
- Jim Sheridan, Terry George
- Box office
- $16,534,578
- Countries
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Languages
- English
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Hell's Kitchen
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Cast
Daniel Day-LewisNominated
Emily Watson
Brian Cox
Ken Stott
Gerard McSorley
David Hayman
Kenneth Cranham
Lorraine Pilkington- NNiall Shanahan
- JJohn Wall