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.
Acting
Day-Lewis and Watson communicate decades in silent glances.
Direction
Sheridan captures Belfast's powder-keg tension without sensationalism.
Cinematography
Bleach-bypassed film stock gives every frame bruised melancholy.
Director
Jim Sheridan
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