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Description | Information (i):  Show or Hide DescriptionThe Boxer (1997)
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 Drama , Romance , Sport
 Daniel Day-Lewis , Daragh Donnelly , Frank Coughlan , Sean Kearns , Lorraine Pilkington , Niall Shanahan , John Wall , Maria McDermottroe , Carol Moore ,
Kate Perry , Andrea Irvine , Joan McGarry , Theresa McComb , Catherine Dunne , Kerrie Duggan
 Jim Sheridan
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 1997
 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| fighting and opening a
boxing club training aspiring boxers. Maggie has since married Danny's best friend| who is also imprisoned for his I.R.A. activities. Although he has not denounced
the I.R.A. or denigrated his I.R.A. colleagues| Danny has decided to live a life free of political violence. His boxing club is nonsectarian| open to both Catholics
and Protestants. This move irks some of his old I.R.A. colleagues since they feel working with the Protestants will not resolve their David versus Goliath struggle.
Danny's old I.R.A. colleagues| especially their unofficial leader Harry| resort to traditional tactics of violence to stop Danny. Maggie's father| Joe| also an
I.R.A. activist| ...  |
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