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The Boxer (1997) 7.0
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Reviews: 43 user | 58 critic | 19 from Metacritic.com Nineteen year old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the IRA in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his fourteen year old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years ... See full summary » Director:Jim Sheridan |
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Nineteen year old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the IRA in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his fourteen 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 young boxers. Maggie has since married Danny's best friend, who is also imprisoned for his IRA activities. Although he has not denounced the IRA or denigrated his IRA colleagues, Danny has decided to live a life free of political violence. His boxing club is non-sectarian, open to both Catholics and Protestants. This move irks some of his old IRA colleagues since they feel working with the Protestants will not resolve their David versus Goliath struggle. Danny's old IRA colleagues, especially their unofficial leader Harry, resort to traditional tactics of violence to stop Danny. Maggie's father, Joe, also an IRA activist, does not ... Written by Artemis-9
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
31 December 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Bokser See more »Filming Locations:
Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandBox Office
Opening Weekend:
DEM 275,250 (Germany) (20 February 1998)Gross:
£1,173,148 (UK) (27 February 1998)Company Credits
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Liam: I saw you. I saw you with him.
[Glares at his mother]
Liam: You're going to run away with him, aren't you?
Maggie: [Sits down next to him] No. I'm gonna stay right here with you.
Liam: I don't want to see him ever again.
[Gets up and leaves]
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Written by Gavin Friday & Maurice Seezer
Performed by Gavin Friday
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The cut above Danny's left eye disappears in some scenes. See more »Quotes
Maggie: [Liam burned down Danny's gym] What the hell did you think you were doing?Liam: I saw you. I saw you with him.
[Glares at his mother]
Liam: You're going to run away with him, aren't you?
Maggie: [Sits down next to him] No. I'm gonna stay right here with you.
Liam: I don't want to see him ever again.
[Gets up and leaves]
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"EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALRIGHT"Written by Gavin Friday & Maurice Seezer
Performed by Gavin Friday
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The Boxer is dark movie about a seemingly unsolvable problem. It's filmed in a constant dark, dreary, depressing light; this light reflects not only the weather but the mood of Northern Ireland.
This expose of "the troubles" in N. Ireland uses a story about a boxer who returns to his home after being released after 14 years of imprisonment. His goal is to take his most usable asset (boxing) and make something of himself and his former coach.
Like everything in N. Ireland, living normally is laced with problems when you're in the middle of a war. His interest in his now-married former girlfriend is forbidden, since prisoners of war wives are off limits to honor the prisoner. Accepting gifts from the police force is also a sign of capitulation, and as such carries penalties.
The film clearly shows that those that wish to make peace (however passively) and live normal lives are marked as disloyal and targeted by the Irish Mafia (alluded to as the IRA in the film).
It's a sad commentary on a desolate group of trouble makers in a growing desolate land.