Borstal Boy 2000  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Sheridan
Cast: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Michael York, Robin Laing, Mark Huberman, Eva Birthistle, Lee Ingleby
During World War II, I.R.A. soldier Brendan Behan (Shawn Hatosy) is caught trying to assemble a bomb in Liverpool. He is sentenced to an East Anglian reform school where his fellow inmates include a Polish Jew, a Scot, a rapist, and a gay sailor. By movie's end, the story implies that Brendan is transformed by his experience into an enlightened young man intent on leaving his fight for the I.R.A. and discovering his creative self. The facts of Brendan Behan's life, however, do not support the conclusion. Upon release from reform school, Brendan returned to Ireland where he shot a policeman and was sentenced to prison–the first of a number of prison terms.
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